"Oh, scale the walls here, then drop down, free everyone from bindings, leave the guards for a nap if they catch wind of things, otherwise have you happily lift our would-be tributes over the wall with that technique you mentioned, then we can figure out how to get them from here to... ah, well, the fetters, to the witches, I'd think."

To a place where the villagers won't go, who don't choose to give the same sorts of responses to the events around here, but carry their own. Also a place to book passage, because these people, they don't have a home here, if they ever did.