Silvertip Mountain the serpent's words i remember well

There was a certain naivety and grace in the way she chose her words he found, and perhaps that was meant to make her seem more endearing. Yet it did not seem a ploy pushed out to lead him astray, but it was amusing in its own way and a faint smile drew up thinly along his features.

"Safer that way I suppose. Generally none of us dare to take that risk lest we end up with teeth at our hides," and to say he hadn't tempted that fate at least once was a lie. He bore nothing to suggest it had gone well or exceptionally poor and as it were the event was a world away now. "But some hosts are more forgiving than others," he went on to say.