"Why go for your throat when I can tear your head off, little pup," the gnoll growled back, though it lacked the same vitriol as his earlier comment.  Whoever he was, he wasn't inclined to take any disrespect, but he wasn't going to have a fight with the female right here and now, not with these humans watching on.  Already there were three of them, all three male, and there was the scent of some others out of sight.  While one of them, away from the two grouped together, protested against any hostile intent, the two others went into a more battle ready stance.  The gnoll should have felt threatened by this, but part of him understood the threat that two gnolls and a sudden stranger posed.  The other part of him felt oddly cool and calm.  No, that wasn't quite right.  There just a well of confidence in him that didn't feel threatened by such a small weapon.  Still, threat or no threat, he felt compelled to diffuse the situation some what.<br/><br/>"Lower your weapon," he said to the one holding a dagger, sitting down on his haunches to indicate a more relaxed stance.  "Let us have a peace talk then, if no harm is meant to be had."<br/>The question regarding his name stirred a faint shimmer of pain in his head, making him wince slightly, and he shook his head, "I would give my name, and ask for yours in return, but I can recall no such thing.  I have woken up to circumstances that have left me little in the way of information that I could give you in a peace talk.  There is no use in asking for the females name either, she is presumably in the same situation as I am."<br/><br/>Taking a look at the three men again, the gnoll's eyes widened, "Wait, perhaps you have woken up in the same way.  In a mausoleum, with only the clothes that you wear right now and no memory as well.  Is that true?  Are you also prisoners of the present with no link to the past?"<br/>Before he could say any more, the scent that he had caught earlier seemed to be growing closer and closer.<br/>"This one doesn't smell male.  I think it's a female of their kind.  You are smaller than I am.  If you are confident in your skills, perhaps you can hunt her and bring her here."