He manages to elude them long enough to quickly duck into one of the opened cellars. It certainly looks like a fairly ordinary root cellar, with shelves lined with various goods, to last through the winter, though he'll notice a couple of makeshift beds, in the middle, along with the evidence that someone's been eating things out of the cellar. It seems that someone's been living down here, which doesn't make much sense; there's houses, right above them, and, as far as he can tell, they're all empty.