Getting to Know you

Garris and Mendez have been travelling for a couple of days and thankfully the young Swashbuckler has fully recovered from his hangover.
Garris explains the reason of his trip and his need for a guard: “Thing’s have become far too dangerous in Seawell. It seems like it was just a year ago that Seawell was just a small frontier town. Now it’s become a city, but something evil has grown along with the population. Most people don’t notice these things but I do.”
Mendez has grown to like the eccentric old man. Even his terrible singing. It turns out Garris has no wife or children, in fact no family of any kind. He’s heading to Redford to retire in comfort in a town more to his liking.
It’s still several days away, and realising Garris’ saddle bags are full of gold, Mendez start’s to feel nervous and eyes the bushes lining the dirt path suspiciously.