[Perhaps he hadn't meant to be funny, but it gets a laugh from her anyway. One that sets the children with their half-completed flower crown to giggling too-- even if they don't know why, likely just responding to her laughter.]

True, true. Just some places hide them deeper than others. Or underneath a less suspect, more expected pile of bodies.

[Just like the Ninth, it's concealed extinction event.]

I dunno that you'd call it a village. But yeah, population-wise it was tiny. Most of the inhabitants had one foot in the grave already, ancient old nuns and shitty, half-blind anchorites. And then just the bone constructs, who obviously don't count. Boring as fuck. Cadens is a bit much, but it definitely isn't boring.

[She glances over at him, and his own little entourage of kids.]

And you? You said you stay with your own, but that doesn't say much about how you feel about the place.