The dog's muddy brown eyes stared back at Elsworth without blinking, unflinching and neither threatening nor threatened. Madadh had some trouble following the eloquent phrasing, and he decided that he would have to get used to such words quickly. His words reminded the young man of the plight of the little town however, and his eyes drifted up again, finding the burnt-out husk of the old fort. "Who has been attacking the town?" he asked, not sure if the topic had come up yet or not. Clearly it was a force of no small power, if it had been able to topple the fortress and decimate the entire colony.