He grinned and turned gesturing with his hand outstretched in front of him towards the direction she was already taking. "Yes I can hold a civil tongue if it holds my interest or cover it with barbs and poison if it serves my interests. But you are no doubt a singular curiosity so the civil tongue may stay fixed during our conversations. A cousin of humans as deep gnomes are to whisper gnomes or deep dwarfs to gold dwarfs. But curious as the nature of your city is perhaps you'd care to enlighten me as to your peoples separation from other humans? The reasons could be perhaps religious, geographical, political or somewhat more obscure."