Janius was on the verge of feeling sick at witnessing the fresh thralls go about their business, their rot filling the air immediately around them. Fleshless bones in suits of armour was one thing, but seeing the bodies that were taken from the near-empty town they had just searched as they shambled with morbid, puppet-like movements was quite another. He just kept his eyes to the table and fiddled with a splintering chip of wood in his fingers, trying to ignore them.

Fendros turned his head to Ahnasha upon being nudged, but her words along with their remorseless tone made his eyes shift about uneasily. "That's..." Fendros cut himself off. Initially, he wanted to ask Ahnasha how she could think to take their souls when they were now essentially defenceless, but his thoughts veered him away from emotional reaction to the reality of the situation. He had been thinking about the deal as well. Those prisoners belonged to the cult. Trying to sneak in and kill them without permission might be misconstrued. Still, they needed those souls to get Orskan's tome. Fendros began to get up, deciding to try a more transparent approach. "I'm going to talk to Orskan about this," he declared.

Without any apprehension this time, Fendros walked up to Orskan and addressed him. "Orskan, about the deal we had. I would like to have a word." After turning and moving to speak more privately, Fendros produced the bag of soul gems and the dagger he had borrowed. His words were still tired and stressed, despite being diplomatic. He wanted to wrap up their dealings with the least amount of bother to everyone involved. "We only managed to get one soul before we were captured. I apologise. However, given how the many people the cult captured alive when taking the settlement, I imagine there is now an abundance of souls available to you. I don't assume to insult you by asking for the tome you had promised without fulfilling our side of the bargain exactly as we agreed, but I would beseech that capturing those prisoners would not have been possible had the pack not tracked us to them. I should think the convenience for taking the souls has been provided with this, so I ask, with your agenda fulfilled, might you reciprocate and help ours? The experience we had yesterday was something I would sooner forget," Fendros started to trip over his words as more of his mind became occupied with blocking the images out, "I would rather not have it be for nought."