Catherine could almost understand his gruffness.  He had lost a brother to the drow and there were two odd women in his shop in the middle of the night.  However, they needed to get on with things and she wasn't one to waste time coddling someone unless there was profit in it, so she got right to the point.<br/><br/>"I'm always in the market for good daggers and where we are going I need some small throwing knives that can't be seen in the dark.  We also need to know anything you know about this drow queen...her name, where to find the entrance to her caves?  Things like that."  She stopped to let him reply, but before he could she added, "And we are in need of a riding lizard/saddle harness.  Know anyone who can help us out with that?"<br/><br/>Now that she was ready to begin, she had become impatient.  It was time to go get this done.