"They're<em>causing it?</em>Did he say why?" "That's horrible! They're trying to kill people?" "I think it all makes sense, then. The paladin wasn't supposed to take over the city. So they're trying to fix it. First, they started raising a riot, then they planned to send the dragon in. When the paladin couldn't fix that problem, the town would throw him out. But you changed that, drove the dragon away. So now the bastard had to come here himself, and is stirring everything up, worse than before." "But... why? Why don't they want the paladin running the city? It's not terribly good for your business, sure, but it<em>has</em>been good for the city. In fact, I think it could be very good, if he were given time to run things properly, and wasn't being outright attacked." "Someone liked the status quo; the almost-miserable state of uneasy balance the city was in before. But I can't figure out why, either."