He smirked slightly at their stories, before deciding to be a little honest about his. He explained he had taken a job for someone, and was looking for a few of their possessions that might have come this way, but he was going to hang around long, maybe a couple days at most. Mostly he had wanted a warm meal, cool ale, and a bed other than the ground for a change from the last week. He mentioned he was a fairly skill procurer, and could use a couple spells, letting them draw the conclusion that either he was far more powerful than he actually was, he was lying, or he was one of the rare arcane tricksters that showed up from time to time in the nation. The last of which he was, though he wasn't going to go too deeply into his abilities.