I look curiously at the laughing woman and realize that I probably looked a tad untrained with how I acted. My smile returning to my face, I nod appreciatively. "If you'll have me, I'll be honored to travel with the people who slew the monster terrorizing the town. It's," my smile disappears as my sentence trails off, the impact of the amount of people now dead hitting me and beginning to sink in. Despite my best try, I couldn't get a smile back on my face and I simply shake my head. "An entire town...what...what happened?"

I couldn't get a grasp on it, how a single monster could take out an entire town, even if it was a scorpion. Sure, their carapace was hard to get through, but everything had a weakness and you'd think an entire garrison of guards and all the mercenaries the reward brought it would have eventually found it before now. Of course, it would seem it was too late by that point. "May God rest them..." I mutter.