So, you're like a compromiser of sorts? How interesting...that must be quite a talent, preventing such things like that from happening. Is it like a profession, besides the actual fire-fighting?

[And now he's going to start to lead him out of the town without stopping for the thread he was originally supposed to get- he could go back any time, really, and the primary job here was to get this man out safe and alive.]

Oh, I didn't get your name, by the way. [He flashes a smile over his shoulder.] I'm Garry.