Alexander finality was, slightly, amused; but still more angered and annoyed then anything else. “Don’t tell me you’re trying to sell that yelp of a pup here.” Alexander chuckled mockingly while grinning wickedly and speaking just laud enough for anyone who might be interested to hear clearly.
“It’s simply a pathetic example of a gnoll, It did not put up much of a fight did it? Nether you nor it looks all that hurt; making it worthless of trained to be a guard, but wait theirs more, it’s at the worst possible age to acquire! it’s right at the age where it starts building the nerve to challenge its alpha male for supremacy, and even if accepts you as it’s ‘alpha’, for now, it would quickly challenge any prospective owner for dominance; and they don’t bother to give you warning when the challenge comes.” Alexander stated insultingly “Meaning a prospective owner would have to be both able and willing to wrestle with a growing Gnoll, with or without weapons, on a moment’s notice even if sick, and let’s get to the real meat of the issue; the upkeep. Gnolls are carnivores, they can be sustained on grains for a very short time, sure, but in the long run it costs far more just to feed one then to pay for a skilled laborer to do the same job with better results and no risk of being ate the moment you release its bounds so that it can do work!” He chuckled, before digging deeper into the subject.
“Also, their terrible miners, their more liable to cause a cave in from picking mindlessly then finding any useable ore, and even then the ends of the shafts will need to be redug so that there is room for it to work, there is not one task here that is suited for a gnoll, and if you or someone else wanted to sell it off else were, you would have to hop that other gnolls could not find you before you got to where you’re going, and the odds are they would find you with in short order the only thing that gnoll is good for here is to bargaining chip to its friends, and I think they would sooner kill you then bother asking why you have one of theirs bound: best yet…” Alexander continued before leaning in and talking in a hushed whisper “…if you kill it now, the other Gnolls will smell its blood and Rem will face a full blow Gnoll war party before the body is cold; Rem is presently seethed between those we now war with and the gnolls, who up until now have been happy just scalping Treylor solders and leaving us alone, and now you’ve taken steps to starting a second war with what was a neutral if not friendly faction.” Alexander grinned with sadistic satisfaction and whispered one last sentence with great amusement “if the gnolls come to Rem now, it’s on your head; you’ve taken that burden from me.”
Alexander retook his full standing height while still grinning “But if you were looking to sell it I think, all things considered, three gold coins would be more than generous considering the danger inherited simply in being around the thing for any length of time, that it untrained and virtually worthless here even if it was trained.” Alexander then said flatly before adding “And while I’m not in a generous mood, I’m already running late enough as it is; I’ll buy that burden off of you for three gold coins.” He finished with a mellow tone.
