Sounds like bit of dialog from a video game, only more serious, though with an undertoning of mocking the contrivance. Maybe I’m reading too much into that, but that’s what I got. Nicely done, whether you meant all that or not. It’s a clean read.

Thank you for the comment!

It was meant to be like dialogue from a video game. I wasn’t sure how to make it seem like this was routine; take the outsider in, wring out all of his gold, and leave him to die.

The fact that anything came through makes me happy though.