Given his experience with the insects, Paralain was able to speak confidently in their defense. "I won't deny that they are dangerous, but I can say that their poison won't be a specific issue as long as the Chaurus remains peaceful. Their poison is a valuable resource to them that takes energy for their body to produce, so they only use it when hunting, or when threatened. There will not be any accidental injuries from acid spray, or anything like that. The particular chaurus I have in mind is one of the older ones that I have personally spent a lot of time around. She is well-behaved; we just have to make sure that our chaurus can handle being around crowds of people. I plan on bringing her at first to some of the more sparsely populated areas of the city, then slowly introducing her to more and more crowded areas. I think that would reduce any surprise for both her and the clan."

Paralain, unfortunately, could not give a definitive answer to Darahil, but he could make a few strong educated guesses based on what he knew. "Well...we do know that they certainly grow large enough to be used in that capacity, or even as mounts. The Falmer do not seem to use them to carry anything, but that may be because the Falmer do not need them for that with their lifestyle, or a simple lack of intelligence on their part to train them in that way. As it stands now, the chaurus we have now are not yet large enough to be used as beasts of burden, though we can begin training for that. Right now, our oldest chaurus are just starting to reach the age where they are laying eggs of their own. We won't need to scavenge them from around the cavern for much longer. The greatest issue is that there are some things we don't know about their life cycle. The most common kind of chaurus that you see around the cavern, the kind that crawl around on the ground, are sort of like their larval stage. Though, not exactly. They are still adults at that stage and can lay their own eggs, but it is not their final form. From what we have observed, they eventually go into a cocoon and transform into a flying insect, which some of the literature refers to as a chaurus hunter. They would be useful for other things, but not for that kind of work. Unfortunately, we don't know how long it will be before our chaurus reach that stage. Based on how fast they've grown so far, we estimate it will be one and a half to two years before they reach the common size of the chaurus we see with the Falmer. Though, they will continue growing even after that. The thing is, we don't know how long they stay as an adult before transforming. If it happens too quickly, it might not be worth it to train them to replace our horses. Just based on the relative rarity of the hunters, though, it might be possible."

Paralain paused for a few moments before remembering one of the other points he had intended to make, and was actually rather excited about. "Oh, but there is one other definite use for them. They should be able to be farmed. The Falmer do that effectively for meat, chitin, and probably poison. They are omnivorous, and in addition to meat, they can actually eat the glowing mushrooms that grows all around the cavern. The same mushrooms that are toxic to us. It means we can feed them something that is both abundant, and useless to us as food."