She struggles to sit up, and you can see there is a nasty stab wound in her side. She gasps, and clutches it.
"Oh, sir, it was horrible... goblins! We've never had any problem before.. but... they came, I don't know how many, and started to kill and burn and... it was horrible!"
You know that there are bands of goblins all along the front of the Cobalt Mountains, of course, but for the most part they don't initiate hostilities, and they certainly don't roam this far into the forest (that you know of). You DO know, of course, that they are overly-fond of fire, so that part adds up...