"Ogres don't scare me," he replied with a nonchalant shrug. "Not even ogres with no sense of humor." It was vaguely amusing to him to wonder if ogres even existed in this world, but for all that, maybe some had shown up here the same way he had.
Arching his brows, he regarded her with a mix of doubt and amusement, "I don't imagine I can meet the right price. Not without a friend of mine beating me senseless for spending all my rent money. Is the price cheaper for the right person?"
He honestly wasn't sure whether he believed her or not. For obvious reasons, he knew it wasn't impossible and the place certainly looked the part, but he wasn't sure she would have gone about advertising it like that if it were. Unless she was just ... being ironic or some such thing.