Of course, Griar could not respond to her since she was choking him, but he did feel her grip lessen even just a slight bit as she realised that the intruder was not the usual sort, which naturally aroused some curiosity, and certainly a wish to extract information from him.
Griar had read about that Republic and those collectivists in the letters, they were two groups who had taken notice of what was happening here, and were seemingly attempting to appropriate the powers of the water for themselves, but could only send handfuls of soldiers at a time as the people here were actually situated into a third country, preventing those two forces from really going all in with their efforts, which resulted in the dismembered corpses being burnt inside of town.
