Quinta tosses Tak a small sack holding a mix of nuts, dried fruit and Dried meat.  Travel rations, a fresh batch that she had prepared with her own hands. "Try that."  She looked down at Hallen, running a finger across her lips and frowning slightly.  "What bothers meh about this is the behavior of the animals."  Distracted by the problem at a hand, her home accent is creeping into her voice.  "I don't know these critters, but they seem to beh pack hunters, like wolves."  She gives Alphonse and Tak a worried glance. "Wolves might pull down isolated workers in a field, or a few of them, but everybodeh?  And the weapons.  Wolves don't dare get injured by prey, they starve if the injury don't kill'em right off.  A real fight scares 'em away.  Not these things, they got everybody, armed or not."<br/><br/>She gives Fiera a slight smile.  "Keep your money.  You gave meh a place to stay for very easy duteh in return." She stretches hugely. "Truth to tell, I been gettin' bored.  The bonejacks didn't do shit for their pay, really.  And that "Pay it off" trick, that sounds more like my old uit than the city guard.  I'm pretty sure she went looking for mercs to help out when the Guard was too busy.