"I don't think anyone in the town actually believes they're alive. Figured them for murdered, eaten, whatever. The mayor says he wants them back but surely he doesn't actually believe that? Something's not right with that guy. For one thing, he's obsessed with the missing women, knows them all by name, detailed descriptions right down to their temperaments. But it was like he was describing things, not people. Anyway..." He regards Bull with an impassive expression. "So, what did you take them away for? I've never met a monster that's taken up with slavers." Which would be a pity as Eskel would probably kill him on private principle for such a thing, Code or not. He does have questions about the"don't want to go back" bit though, that part is curious. "In fact, I've never met a monster who just took women away and then let them go at all, especially ones that never came back to their village."

And that's when something clicks for him, almost. There's one monster he can think of that catches humans and then lets them go. Usually exhausted and dehydrated and dizzy with lust, but alive.

"What are you, anyway? I've been studying bestiaries since the minute they taught me how to read and I've never seen anybody like you."