I'm not like thee... I know how to use a sword and use it well. My price is not negotiable and the first part is to be paid in advance of the journey, so be ye interested or have thy scribblings been just hopeful dreams?
Of course I am respected little man. Have ye not known that no man dares to face me in battle, besides bandits are like flies. Meh fee is meh fee, what ye do with gold is thine, but I am most partial to gems, so I will watch keenly.
Enough talk, do ye have the gold or are ye wasting meh time with much talk?
Entitled? Listen little man, ye may have paid me, but ye better watch thyself, I take no commands and I have been known to cut throats for less.
She looks at the gold and smells it for surety.
This will do.
She places it on a horse and says she will be back within an hour's space of time.
Ok we have our sixth person. I would say lets head south when she gets back and go to where the tracks of the wagons head out of the forest towards deaths mouth.
I believe this to be around N9. Maybe we can get lucky and get one of the shipments in route.