"Which families have not had to worry about this?" Who walks freely, he asks, and then he pauses, also considering.

"What else can you tell me about the House of Ravens? Or why it seems that whatever gifts Brother Sanwon's movements might encourage, this village doesn't seem to keep them particularly close."

Watches, yes, for anyone else secreted out of the village, for anyone else being dragged up the mountain, to its foot or its peak, for their blood to be consumed by a spirit that two lords of undeath were haunting the region in wait for 'his' explosive release.