Once the people know that the most important resources they need will reduce in the future, they will surely complain and protest. So this clash with the people of the town was inevitable.
If he can squash their resistance now, he won't be attacked by the lamp bearers and the people of his town at the same time. He counts that as successful leadership.
So he sent out more godclads to beat the people up and scatter them. As for the matter of the troublesome traveler, he sent for the only fate weaver in town and gave her the mission to find the traveler at all costs and in less than one day.
So the traveler was being hunted from two sides. She didn't know this, so she was still blissful. She was injured and bleeding, so not everything about her was blissful currently.
What she did know was that the family members of her comrades were being killed. She also knew that she wasn't going to stand around and watch while something like that happened.
