Yes, well. Let's just hope "next time" is a ways off, at least. Everyone's still chattering on about last night. Whatever it was. Besides, if this place had gotten any more tense, it probably would have burst. [And Giles has experience with towns that go mad with pressure and fear. It's not an experience he's terribly eager to repeat, even as a ghost.]

...the thorns protect us, as well as threaten. I, um, I think I only just realized that, last night. That...might be something to think about, if nothing else.

Some of us - the, um, the newer arrivals, like myself - were discussing making a trip out to where the thorns are supposed to be, when they're not guarding the forest.