[Larcei crosses her arms, looking pensive. She's not going to deny those points out of hard-headedness. This place is, after all, a foreign world. It would be far too easy to get in over her head and never see home again. After all the work Larcei's done to free it, she doesn't want to get killed before she can live there.]

...You're right, I don't. [She doesn't doubt that Kaberou is the victim's father or that he could make good on the reward, otherwise he'd have been ignored or shouted down. But... she decides to exercise her mind for a moment.] If Kaberou is so rich and so powerful, he must have his own resources. But he's sending an indiscriminate crowd of strangers against his enemy.

[Her first guess is that they're all meant to be cannon fodder to soften up Iron Bear, but there may be more subtle things at play.]