Briseadh barely manages to take that as something other than a threat. Barely. 

"I thank. What else I help you before I go? What else stranger not know but good for stranger to know?" Wouldn't want to look like trouble this early.

"You can wash your hands at the pump over there and then put the laundry from the clothesline in the basket. If you don't like it on this round, you can see about hopping a ship to another one."

"I not dislike, I not know what work I best at. I think cut tree. I cut well and hold heavy thing." That is a sentence that is going to sound weird coming from a chronically underfed teenage, however wiry his frame. Oh well. "How much coin hop ship?"

Briseadh will wash his hands and start taking down some laundry, in the process getting a look at what passes for local garb. He doesn't want to give up his robe and leathers but it might be nice to cover it with something.

"I dunno how much. You might be able to work your passage."

They favor tunic-length shirts and have invented both of pants and buttons but neither elastic nor zippers.

Do they sew in kneepads though, because that's a surprisingly useful selling point for him.

"What job they lots want work passage?" He guesses that cutting things is not a useful skill on a sail but maybe he's wrong. 

They do not have kneepads sewn into the pants, though some of them are patched there.

"Cleaning the hull, working in the galley, hauling water and waste? You don't seem likely to know how to work the sails."

"I do not know how work sails. I can clean and haul." There's a bit of back and forth to get an idea of what a galley is, and then the laundry is folded and he's ready to move on. Has it been long enough he's sleepy or that Shimyamei might be awake yet?

Not likely, he had two not-very-long conversations. Locals are short sleepers but not that short.

How about those wise guys?

He'll ask about directions to where he might find one. If they're so wise maybe they'll have advice. Then he's going to try and scout for one while staying as far away as he can thank you. "Wise person who can tell people things and have dissent just stop happening" sounds like someone is abusing Jedi mind tricks. Maybe that's going to mean they have a fight about it if they sense him. He can at least make it hard for them, he's been keeping his temper in check and barely drawing on the force since he woke up.

Does he get directions? Can he spot one of these people before they spot him?

There are only two wise folks in Oatsfield. They live in that house over that way together. At least one of them is usually awake.

Thanks old guy! Briseadh will be polite and as unsuspicious as he can at this point.

Anywhere he can be somewhat concealed as he starts a stakeout observing the house until someone leaves?

Opening himself up to the force is a double edged vibrosword. If he can sense them they can almost certainly sense him. So instead he'll just go with good old eyesight and hope.

He could climb a tree? He could hide behind a bean trellis? The houses around here don't have a ton of windows. There's no smoke coming out of their chimney right now. A cat sleeps on their front walk.