[There's a crease of guilt in his face, then, because he does feel awful about focusing on the superfluous aspects of city life just because things hadn't seemed that bad. He should have been sharing what he knew, instead of assuming things were okay.

He shakes his head.]

This happened before you got here, but there were still a lot of us around at the time, you know? So people came and left but I never really thought like, right, now there are swords here who don't know about this stuff. [He shifts, discomforted.] Plus, it was kinda like... If they weren't there, it was probably better, since that place had such a bad feeling and all.

[Which was a foolish assumption to make, as he's realizing.]

Um... I'm gonna talk to a few people later this week, but we should find a safe way to sit down and share info after that so we can all be on the same page.