The reptilian creature seemed far more welcoming and accommodating to Darious than the captain as he watched it from its perch a top the man's shoulder before sliding a piece of meat from the last of his skewer and carefully offering it to the captain's companion hoping he wouldn't lose a finger in the process.

As the captain appeared to reach for his sword the mercenary didn't flinch or reach for his own blade, instead, calmly considered the way the seasoned captain moved as his hand reached into his coat pocket and presented the rolling papers.

And so began the bartering process, It was expected really, any half decent merchant should barter and Darious would have looked for another if he felt that the captain would be a push over. He nodded at the price for the Tobacco and rolling papers. Adding a few for bits on top of the initial price for all of the papers. "The bits I can do, but I'm afraid I've no sky stone here with me, Kind of difficult for me to lug that around in this region wouldn't you say? A lot of eyes lurking about." He offered a chuckle then continued "Nope, no skystone but, I can add two gold talents and some exotic pelts if you're interested... and one final gold talent if you get me there in a day?" 

His eyes glistened as he dropped his pack to the ground and extracted the pelts for the captain of the Bloated Weasel to consider. Each pelt would fetch at least a gold talent at the tailors, but what was a modest mercenary to do? He had to get up to the mountains and the look of this captain implied that he wouldn't ask too many questions. 

"Won't need to leave till tomorrow morning though, I've been on the road for a bit and I fancy a comfortable bed and a hot bath before I set out again. Darious scratched at his stubble as his eyes wandered the market. One could never be too careful around places like these, especially if people think there's a travelling pack full of goodies to be had. 

"What say you Captain?" he offered a hand to him " Do I have myself a ship?"