They did keep asking us not to be too friendly, didn't they? I suppose the question, then, would be who exactly they may have betrayed. The cult, or their fellow overseers.

[ they don't know enough, and with the village hiding everything, they may not find answers. maybe it isn't even worth thinking about.

...but a life is a life, no matter how it was used. ]

I expected we may face casualties, eventually, but only among our own number. The overseers weren't supposed to be part of this ritual at all.