"This is unfortunate. It appears my swift claw is taken with your...scrawny thing. I'll give you 400 gold for the night."

"Uh...no....that's quite ok."

"I wasn't asking. She'll be useless in the races unless she is satisfied. 600."

"JULES RUN"

***

Yalter and his swift claw Hajime. Barbarians from Yalter's clan bond very closely with their swift claw companions, ritually taking on every wound that their mount suffers during a race or in battle. In truth, though brutish and unwilling to take no for an answer, Yalter's purpose in running the Grand Race is to take down the violent no holds barred swift claw destruction derby races, which his people view as unnecessarily cruel and anathema to their beliefs. Though his racing style is no less brutal...

Also, she just wants to cuddle. Northern swift claws see their smaller eastern cousins (like what Julian was turned into) as younglings and it awakens some odd maternal instinct in them. Yalter is trying to pay Sadie for a cuddle session.