"I have been awake a short time, allowing myself to listen..." Barely moving his hand, he motions at his ear, tipping his head before he drifts his fingertips vaguely in the direction of the main part of the village.

"Your neighbors seem to think that I am a demon you have summoned to aid in protecting the village from the bandits...and now that some of them have been killed, we have been performing..." a smirk pulls at his lips. "Dark rituals."