We can just make someone else eat the candy first. As a test run. Feed it to Phos.

[The kid's got some points, though. It's enough to get Dixon to rearrange his second and third choice. The woods are still, to use a technical term, "creepy as shit", but exposure isn't going to be great either. And they don't know how long they'll be on that route dealing with sun and sparseness.]

On the other hand, though, if someone gets lost in the woods we ain't never finding them again.