( Ko nods; he knows the feeling. Glancing uneasily around them, he considers the statement briefly. )

Were you not offering something up already? I don't know what that something is worth to you, but ... I urge you to consider how this place gained something worth trading for.

( That's what stood out to him: how would the Fae here have gotten items and the like from their homes? It feels off; he'd been able to resist it himself by thinking of that. )