Cassper's eyes were large when they met the boy's, probably making him look as if he'd just seen a ghost or two. "Wait-" he took a step forward the moment the boy tried to walk away, his eyebrows furrowing together."I won't call an ambulance, but if you keep walking around like this eventually someone will. Or worse, they might call the police." Towns like Lawrance didn't handle sights like these well, and there's no doubt in Cass' mind that sooner or later someone would see him and have him arrested without asking any questions. "At least get cleaned up a bit..." Cass suggested, his voice hesitating over his next few words. It's not that he distrusted the guy, because he hadn't known him long enough to brew distrust, but he couldn't exactly trust a complete strange either.
"My uh...my apartment is just two blocks down..." he added, hoping the boy would put the rest of the pieces together. Taking a couple more steps forward, Cass lifted his chin to meet a pair of stormy eyes obviously lacking sleep, and extended his hand. "I have food and hot water." The soft smile that spread across Cassper's face was not only for the stranger's sake, but for his own sake, to remind him that he had made the best choice.