(Of course they are. If the people don't want the help of strangers, that's their right; it's their land and their problem. Any help Bahorel and Enjolras can give will be in following the lead of citizens here. But they need to know as much as they can to know what help they can offer, and to be of any use if the offer's accepted.)

"Hmm."

It's a start -- and far more than they'd known before. But there are, of course, still plenty of questions to ask.

"The children talk about it. I wonder if the adults will? Not in a big crowd like this, clearly, but..."

"They're afraid of ghostly ears, but I had a hard time telling if they were thinking of mortal ears too. And wary of the king. The new king, yes -- very new, and some kind of broken promises around how he came to power, or how he's holding it now. There's some anger about that, kept quiet."

How many are angry, and how much so? Hard to tell yet. But at least some; it's there, in the undertones, in sentences muttered or begun and shushed.