You're not entirely wrong. [claude, so smart...] But it's less an effort to do work for me than it is an effort to do good by the town.

[he gestures to the mostly-buried pathway,]

I'm not the only one who uses these paths, after all. And perhaps the spirits here will thank us for our efforts?

[he means the ghosts of all the previous inhabitants who just KICKED IT, but it's fine]