The urge to reject this request grew dramatically, Hakoon despised it with every fiber of his being even! Yet there were certain aspects which held his tongue back, like honor and pride.
In a slightly primitive way, the big man was convinced that he owed William a lot of favors. Now regardless of how unreasonable that perspective was, it still had enough strength to force this dim-witted man to cooperate.
For that matter he easily gave in, "Okay, but if my head gets sawed off... please don't give up on this city."
His morals and love towards the domain was heart-touching, but in this case his dramatic response was perhaps unnecessary.
It was true that William didn't know much about his self-generated portals, but he understood that some creature shouldn't simply die, if it just went through the odd gate.
