The three travelers listen to your tale in rapt silence. Even Rikard momentarily seems lucid enough to take in a detail or two. Eren, on the other hand, sits grinning, enjoying the story for all its worth. 

"...and yearns eternally for darker things still."

CRACK!

"Ho ho!" Eren laughs. "My friend has a penchant for the dramatic. Had I not seen his handiwork earlier today I might suggest he take up with a troupe of bards."

Ludwig, who only just seems to shake off the spell he'd been under, looks at you. "So those men outside...the bandits? You killed them?"

"All of them?" Endra adds.