From what I've gathered, everyone is moving as a group across this land to save it or at least figure out more. Supposedly if you try to stray too far from the group, you end up transported back so running away is useless.

[She shrugs and shakes her head, expression briefly irritated, but resigned.]

But I'd suggest bathing and changing first, lest our hosts take offense to you dripping blood all over their clean floors.