"He has a point. Just because he dresses like a farmer doesn't necessarily mean he is one. He is standing there, just watching, after all," Vale said thoughtfully.
Harland frowned, seeming to admit defeat on that front. "Well, we can't well do anything about him just standing there watching. Thornhand hired us to keep him safe. He didn't hire him to go around killing his small folk."
"That's the pity of it. Would be a lot more fun to do the second part of that," Silverfish said.
Their patrolling that morning could not have been called an eventful affair. They gave a lazy report to Ser Thornhand, but even in receiving the news that they hadn't spotted anything, the man didn't exactly seem relieved. In, he seemed to grow more nervous from it. It was as if he wished that they'd found something.
