Vaden's brows admittedly lifted a little at the mention of a shark with eight legs or a walking snake with three heads. These seemed sort of antithetical to the creatures he was aware of. How interesting this other man's job must be to see such fascinating creatures though.

"If I may ask - what line of work were you in that you would see such fascinating creatures?"

It sounded like the work of rather enterprising mages, really. Such studies, he imagined, would be met with constant discussion of ethics and the like where he was from - he already had to suffer through so many people saying to his face that his own topic of study was something only evil men would do.