"You may not wish to begin unloading, honestly," she says, after conferring with a couple of women, and seeing that the sobbing ones are being calmed. "They haven't yet reached a decision, but I don't think anyone is going to want to stay here, not with the souls of their dead haunting them. I suspect that we'll simply take what remains of our valuables, pack them, and head for a larger city. If nothing else, without our men, we have little to defend ourselves."