"Just the opposite. I'd consider you an idiot if you didn't see anything at all in the rumors, again unless you knew better for certain - if only for your own safety, whether you're a simple traveller or not."

And she already knew he wasn't. As for his second question, she merely shook her head at him and rested her chopsticks across the half-finished bowl, signifying that she was done, "And sleeping here's still safer than sleeping in the woods or on the road. It'd only be more dangerous if I was here alone."