Kate was thumbing quietly through a book she couldn't read while the pleasantries were exchanged.  After a short period, she couldn't take the genteel discussion any longer and looked at the young nobleman, putting her hands on her hips and saying in her deepest brogue.<br/><br/>"We intend to find and kill the beast. As the noble of these lands, surely that duty belongs to you. Since we're here doing your job in your stead, we were hoping you could lend us some aid.  Perhaps coin to pay your smallfolk to help move my ship from its sandtrap.