The parties involved nod in agreement with his assessment. The Duke adds, "I'm not trying to make it sound like we making an effort to go after all of your holdings, greedily. I mean, not that I'd turn them down," he said with a chuckle, "But more because it's something that needs to be settled in writing, as early as possible, to avoid conflict years later. We dwarves have long memories, but even those can fade with the passage of a century or two."<br/><br/>The lawyer wrote some more notes, and passed them over to Caiaphas to read, effectively saying what he'd said, but in legalese.