There's a part of Alpha's that's rather impressed with Howard's set up, considering the kid's age, but most of Alpha is not so generous and he's not in the best of moods, so he slips through the traps with relative ease. Howard's got obvious experience, but Alpha's a genius several times over and he's not up to being kind to Howard's ego, even with the intention of simply messing with Howard's head.

He makes it into the tunnel where Howard's asleep in silence, and when a quick glance around doesn't reveal any food or anything else he'd be interested in stealing just then, he shrugs and grabs a thermos, dropping his attempts to be quiet as he does so.

He hasn't seen Howard's face yet, tracked him from a distance and behind to see where he was holing up, but he's got a decent set of scars himself, burns on the side of his face just shy of his eye and on the delicate skin at the corner of his mouth, together they'll make quite the sight.