Ooh! Yes, yes of course..... Eyre would be left above because Steth would feel that it'd be safe to depart for just a moment, with a sincere threat to anyone that if he comes back to the man harmed, he'll wipe out the entire village. And as to the naga, well, certain people have this information---naga are rare, and old texts tell of the magical, healing, and otherworldly abilities of naga scales. So it'd be chained up to keep it still, and in such a weakened state because it's rarely fed.
I feel like it'd bring in a temporary character we both can control, who'll die soon because of the advanced state of health, and will cause the village to fear Steth more yet at the same time, see his benevolent side at the horror he feels at seeing something tortured.
OK, well I had this idea that a lonely inventor managed to invent the time machine. He uses it to go forward in time, to see how the world turns out, but somehow there is a major glitch in the programming and he is sent either way forward in time, or he is sent to another dimension altogether.