When he heard that well-dressed outsiders were in his village, an elderly man in his sixties frowned.
Outsiders haven't been allowed into the village in a long time. Everyone was terrified of contracting the plague that had plagued their village, so they were kept apart.
It was a blessing that their village was not closed and that they could still leave and enter at will. After all, it has been established that the plague favors the villagers over outsiders.
"What do you think they're here for?" the village chief had to ask the middle-aged man who had arrived to report.
The man had observed the visitors when they arrived and they did not appear to have malicious intentions, so he told the village chief truthfully, "I don't think they are here to cause trouble. They're already on their way here, so it'll be easier to just meet them and learn why they've come."
