"Oh, I see." He's quiet again for several minutes. If he hated the cold less he'd wish he had an ability to mess with the weather instead of just influence emotions - trapping the shepherd who might not be bad here and keeping the ones who are absolutely bad out sounds like a rather nice plan. Unfortunately, that's not his skill set.

"Those were stressful. I'm not sure anyone really figured them out." He'd put coin on the person behind the chaos being the one who died half-turned into a plant, but he's never been good at betting. What he really wants to ask is how a village maybe stops having shepherds come by, but he's not sure Dain would want to answer that. It's a little rude. Then again, so is burning people to death. "Did you find anything?"