Kuhl is talking with the old shopkeeper, saying, "I meant no offence. I did not know of your personal connection, which of course makes your grief ever sharper."
The other adventurers walk in, as he continues. "The pain of losing two children in this way is beyond reckoning." The armoured one picks up the conversation, and Kuhl is surprised to learn of the others' intentions, which so nearly mirror his own.
"I can show you the old road," he says, introducing himself but not thinking to offer a hand, "for I am heading in that direction myself. Are you ready to travel straight away?"
Kuhl's tall, thin form turns back to the shopkeeper. "I seem to have answered my own question. I know it will bring you no comfort, kind mother, but I shall leave you and offer guidance to these others. I will see you again."
He bends at the waist in a kind of bow, and steps again into the light. "Come, if you are ready," says Kuhl to the others. "There is water at the well. Replenish your skins, and we can be off."