Escaping the combat, Moth travels some distance away from the town, giving himself time to heal. "This place seems possessed of its own evils," he says to himself. "It seems I must investigate, though if this place also proves to contain dangers beyond my power to overcome, then I must once again travel elsewhere."
Come the evening, he returns to the town, but instead of coming within sight of the gates, he looks for a place where he might conceivably scale the walls unseen.