[...He honestly hadn't expected any agreement. Huh.]

"We" is a generous way of putting it. This isn't really an organized group. Everybody's making their own decisions. [And much as his military instincts want him to shove everything into nice clean little boxes, he's a bit torn on whether everybody here should be organized.]

But for me? I've been staying out of the local politics. Make some friends, enjoy the city when it wasn't on fire [They have magical hair dye how could he not], then lend a hand out once it all went to hell. The locals asked me to help out with prep for taking on the nobility, so I did. [With great skepticism and reservations, because they'd been cluelessly optimistic about the whole thing.]