Hugh felt a tickle of something familiarly cold, that brought back a few bad memories, followed by the sound of a female ordering him to put the woman cradled in his arms down. After, she stated some odd information about requiring this woman to be alive so as to get paid. The only thing that really puzzled Hugh was the part about where this female elf came from, before he recalled that the fallen one they saw laid down beside the road had white hair similar to this female elf. 

What appeared to be a dire wolf barred its teeth at Hugh as he lowered the body very gently to the ground. After doing this the elven woman used some form of magic to remove the arrow shaft and heal the woman. This amazement turned to annoyance as she stood back up and aimed the knocked arrow at him. 

Hugh spoke up in his deep thunderous voice, "Perhaps it would be necessary to inspect my arms." Motioning to his shield which bore a bloodied and dented mark on it, the blood starting to dry, but nevertheless, fresh. "You might also inspect the bodies gathered over there." He said, motioning with his head towards the corpses Hugh himself had made. "Perhaps, if you dig a little deeper into your memory, you might recall never seeing my face until now." He said, before sighing and continuing, with "Of course, that alone is not evidence enough. There is little way I can prove to you who we are and who we are not, unless of course you were to check us for belonging of yours." He paused and looked her in the eyes, before continuing with "You might have to check me thoroughly, though." And he winked at her. 

There are a variety of things that could result from that small amount of flirtation, and one of them could be an arrow in the chest and another could be a dire wolf trying to tear Hugh limb from limb. Hugh preferred the second one to the first, if any horrid result came from his sense of humor, as he had tangled many a time with dire wolves, and there was a better chance of survival against a wolf than an arrow. Of course, this hadn't been the first time Hugh had been humorous towards a captor.

Finally, Hugh made his last case for survival, "I'm sure it would be pertinent to mention that I personally gored to death three of the men who attacked you and your companion." He said, now speaking seriously as opposed to a few moments ago.