("Monsters are not uncommon on the continent where Cheliax lies though I did not recognize the specific type. It's possible this is not even my planet, though my planet does have a monster-inhabited underground. At least some of it is not completely cut off, though, there are adventurers and raids going between.")
("Yes, people often pick fights with other people, and I would pray for their souls, but they should not attack armed people of unknown strength if they would prefer not to experience all the consequences of attacking armed people of unknown strength. I'm not planning to attack anyone who begins by negotiating.")
("Ma'am, I don't think we understand each other.")
("If you had meant to tell me that it was my legal responsibility as a human present in this area to receive unprovoked violence tamely and if necessary die in the process for some reason, and this in spite of the fact that you intervened violently with the - flower creature, it would not have been the strangest thing I ever heard, but - that did not seem to fully explain your attitude.")
("I believe you, ma'am. I'm prepared to also believe that monsters here are different in some extremely vital way from the ones I'm accustomed to, though I don't yet know what way that might be, and I can imagine spells I might prepare to better adhere to your protocol which wouldn't necessarily make me worse at defending myself with my mace if it came to that should they fail and I'm not unwilling to use those when I have them. I've just spent my career guarding the border around a portal to an infinite plane full of demons who if permitted to escape were bent on the subjugation, torture, murder, and consumption of any mortals they might happen across.")