"Bogeyman trick," Tom prefaced, before launching right into his 'how to be scary' tip of the day. "Scariest thing is the thing you can't really see. When I want to put people at ease, I stand upright and make sure they get a good eye full. It's when you're just hearing noises or you get a glimpse of something out of the corner of your eye that things get bad - 'cause then it's your imagination filling in the what could it be?" He reached into his pocket to fish around, not for another cigarette, but for a toothpick. Tom stuck the object in his mouth and promptly began to gnaw.
"'Course, that's just my take on it, but it's been working so far."
He continued to chew at the toothpick. It wasn't precisely a gentlemanly thing to do, but then he wasn't precisely a gentleman. "Well, we can't all have refined Rawhead tastes," he joked. "If you like your food all cooked, I'm not going to judge you."