Gee, this is weird. Like, really unusual. Well, I guess these things happen. Let go of him, please, we have spent rather a lot of money on him. Now hush, or start talking about how everything is really hard, and that we'll never possibly survive.
Someone get some oil out.
Perhaps the people who had taken over the mines felt they were secure enough not to put sentries in the town itself. The world seems a much simpler place now.