Look how quickly Pie jumped on the train. Also, WF's behavior wouldn't give him away as scum even if he was scum. When WF says he's busy because he has an event, he means it. He could be scum or town, but something as simple as inactivity/buddying wouldn't give him away.
For your information. I obviously know that whiteflame is hard to get a good read on.
As far as saying he wouldn't use a buddying tactic. We are all human and if you are literally being hunted, it does something psychologically to you and he may not even be aware that is what he was doing.
It isn't an overt strategy but a psychological defense to ease the anxiety if being hunted and I voted him immediately. I
I also know he is smart enough to know when he is buddying after the fact and has the will power to temper that impulse