Draiss grinned, and set the Sivridut against a nearby rock near the edge of the path, before sitting down. "'They' say a lot of things in my experience, and some times 'they' don't, while other times 'they' flat out lie. Did they also say that I beat the screamer in the back for trying to raid the temple for the artifact left by the Warrior? Or that all I did to the group was beat them senseless before letting the priestesses heal them and sending them back on their way with a lecture? I rather doubt it, but you did bring that many people to meet me, so I want to make sure we are all on the same scroll before one of us does something silly, and I have to grease the entire path back to the bottom of the mountain."