"The cold-blooded creatures do tend to be a bit... single-minded," Daine allows with a lopsided, sympathetic grin. It's not that they can't be clever or engaging, more that they've often got less energy, and devote more of it to finding food or a mate or whatever it is they're after. Wanting to be paid in horse meat does sound like something an enormous turtle would ask for, at any rate.

"But I suppose the rest of the quest would've been miserable on foot. What did you end up giving him, instead?"