"You have provided my Houses with considerable assistance, Kripp Yelloweye, and I have given you payment in turn. Our relationship has proceeded well thus far, and I wish for that to continue. I am, however, uncertain of why exactly you have returned to us."
"Carcelon has informed me that your lord wishes no alliance with me, nor with Carcelon herself (as if she had any right to make such personal alliances). He offered us one piece of advise, but gave us no reason to believe him. All things considered the meeting was a disappointment, and the treatment of my envoy was undiplomatic to say the least."
"Your return to us is obviously a gesture of good will, as such things are considered in the Abyss, but perhaps you could inform me of your actual purpose here? What is it that do you seek to accomplish?"