"Pfft, please," Stacia says, waving her free hand. "Being trustworthy isn't about saying things, it's about the follow-through. There are people back home who would tell you that I've made choices that indicate that I'm not trustworthy." She grins. "One of them is perpetually annoyed that, in spite of him reaching that conclusion, he still trusts me with the safety of his children. It's incredibly funny, and he is so mad about it."

Sometimes you've just got to let people dislike you. Other times, it's worth it to make them like you against their better judgment. She counts Amigo de las Serpientes' good opinion of her among her greatest accomplishments. If she can get him to like her, she can endear herself to anyone in the Nation if she puts her mind to it.

"So yeah, I don't exactly expect you to trust me, sight-unseen," she says. "All the evidence you've got of my good intentions is the word of the Man in the Moon, and what reason do you have to trust him? I'm willing to put in the work to prove it, is all."