Davos turned his glare to the source of the new speaker, finding a fancily dressed woman standing proudly to the side with a grin. All it took was a glance at her and the cronies behind her loading into the ship for the trapper to dismiss her entirely with a grunt, waving her away with his free hand. Nobility were rarely worth his time to deal with and in his experience they rarely bothered to do any of the real work themselves.
Judging from the pristine grips of her weapon this one was nothing more than a figurehead. 

The information he had gathered on the creature during their brief conflict was explained to the captain in painstaking detail before they boarded the ship. At the helm of the ship he leaned over the railing with his gaze stuck on the island in the distance, his mind replaying the creatures retreat every leg of the way.

[hr]

Touching down on the southern most part of the island he gazed the surroundings disdainfully. Too open, lacking any charm or useful components beyond what he correctly assumed would be a series of cave mouths. If the creature thrived in water and could not sustain itself on dry land then it stood to reason the caves led much deeper. Perhaps a natural well at its core where water pooled up, a perfect place to sleep without dwelling on an ambush.

Even beasts knew they were vulnerable while they slept.

From the group that landed on the island only two of them had any worth to the trapper, one being the captain. The other was an axe wielding brigand with a hook poking out of his pouch whom shrugged off the others with that same disinterested professionalism he himself had shown earlier. 
Lacking any social graces, Davos decided to investigate the potential teammates worth the same way he did with most things. Bluntly.

"Marauder. You got the look of someone worth keeping alive, and I need the right man for my work. What say you?"

[@Lucius Cypher]