"I'll come back as soon as I'm done." James promised, patting Anya on the head. "Be nice to Elric, okay? We're guests in his home, we should be polite to some extent."

The knight descended the stairway, overhearing Elric's midget-wife talk about the coincidence last night. His face grew stern.
"You say that like it was my plan to be attacked by a Dire Hyena and a gnoll. I assure you, if this were a mounted attack on my family it would not take place at a barber shop. But if what you suggest is something so low as that I conspire with gnolls, I advise you to find something akin to evidence."