"It's a little bit how it works. But you're right, you shouldn't trust everyone who shows up. We're going to stay away, though, and if we do anything scary or dangerous you could kill us."

She tilts her head a bit, and three of her tails start swishing from side to side, then she nods. "That makes sense."

"Do you live here, Moonlight Flower?"

She shakes her head, and her bell jingles. "I'm waiting for Mum to come back. She told me to wait here until she got back."

"Have you been waiting long?"

She nods. "It feels like it's been forever. But she said she'd be back soon."

"Where did your mum go?"

"I don't know. There was an attack, I think?"

"An attack? Is your mum a powerful adventurer?"

"My mum is powerful, but I don't know what an adventurer is. She's a priestess at the temple."

"Ah, that makes sense. She protects the temple?"

"And the village. Everyone counts on her. She's really important." Moonlight Flower starts tracing circles on the dust with her right lower paw. "She's always busy because of that. But this time it was really important, because we were attacked."

"Was it an attack on the temple? Or the village?"

"The village. I think. She told me not to go outside."

So... this is meant to be the temple? Taharqi looks around and, yeah, he can see the open area being a temple's garden, now that he thinks about it. There's a dry pond with a petrified tree over there, there are walls or fences roughly surrounding this area, and the main temple building would probably be farther into the cave.

"And you don't know who the attackers are?"

"I think it's the fox demons. The village elders offended them, mum said, and she's been trying to make things better, but maybe they got impatient."

...a story starts to form, then.

"Are the fox demons usually peaceful?"

Moonlight Flower nods. "They come here sometimes to ask for food or jewels. There was a girl, a while ago, that they took. My mum said she was going to become a Princess of the foxes." She sighs wistfully. "I wish I was a princess."

"Really? I'm not sure it's that good. I was a prince, you know?"

"You were? Where?"

"A country called Morroc."

"Oh. I know that country. Mum said that we're at war with them."

...shit.

"Oh, we used to be, but actually we're at peace now. I came here to see how the village was doing, now that we aren't at war anymore."

"You're not... a spy, are you?"