After his words, all the slaves who had spoken before and said different things, were silent and began to watch his progress, in a sudden silence. Medivh's speech was very unusual for them. After all, to them, Medivh was probably the snobbish son of a rich man, and in the eyes of this rich snob, they were nothing but worthless slaves. But when Medivh spoke, he referred to the person as "senior" and instead of talking to them with arrogance, as the rich usually do, he simply admonished the other person by humbling himself in his speech. This was not the kind of behavior of a rich man's snobbish son, or even the kind of behavior that a rich man would do to them. So their view of Medivh changed instantly and they began to wonder what he came here for.