[His gaze shifts from her face for a moment, marking the background against what he knows of the road between ship and city to gauge how far she's come.]

Edmund's the local master of trade. The head of what passes for local government would be Nem -- good man, a little nervous, responsible for there being food and housing set up for new arrivals from the ship. Our third player in the local power structure would be Roni. She's in charge of the local militia, such as it is.