"The what?" Look, Eliot had learned about a lot of underground political movements in his time, and without the word "railroad" attached, runaway slaves wasn't the first thing he thought of. "Right. I, uh. No. I ain't affiliated with anyone else."

He could have liked, he supposed. But it wasn't as though he could offer a lot of concrete detail to this guy about running north in the 19th century. Besides, Noah probably had enough people doing that already.