Curious...it makes her wonder if the bodies she found strewn outside of her emergence were townsfolk as well, mayhaps denizens of a nearby village. Yet given their fate, she feels they were not so keen to have them handed over.

But to what end?

Himeka gives a nod with a light smile before closing that distance and taking a seat upon the ground, wrapping her tail around herself in the same motion.

"I saw the remnants of some sort of battle. I wonder if they had cooperated as your townsfolk did if they'd have been spared.