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Although things like dragons are unfamiliar to you, even from your own time. You'd heard of them at least, but creatures from the north and the east. The dragons themselves by the sound of things are not inhuman, although you can't dismiss some potential divinity to them by their described might, but they do have inhuman servants. Dragonkin they call themselves, and kobolds, humanoids who twisted themselves from the ideal into grotesque reptilian forms. If any have souls it would be them, and it seems that they simply have some sort of symbiosis with the dragons... or merely follow in their destructive wake.
<span class="mu-b">"I would not stoop to beg of you, but we are always short of everything. Goods, manpower, what you would expect."</span>
<span class="mu-r">"Please Sir, it's not begging if we share with you out of charity and love!"</span>
Because of the nature of their settlement and their enemy, Hewe is one of the more isolationist holds if not the most. Simply because living holed up in a mountain, besieged by enemies that can fly and scour the landscape, very little comes or goes from Hewe to the outside world. If there was one particular resource they could use more than anything though, it would have to be lumber, due to the dragons having long since burned their surrounding countryside. Incidentally you do have abundance of forest here in Bexley, but the challenge is transporting anything of worth to Hewe when things like caravans just get picked off by the flying monsters.
In any case you can gain this information quite easily from the visitors, although you might have layered your appeal on a bit too thick. All this talk of love and charity comes off as suspicious and manipulative, even though you genuinely mean it with earnest, simply put that benevolence like yours is unknown in these times. Some of the more experienced men start to sober a little to your charm, and those among your court grumble and express upset that you would think to be charitable to these strangers in Bexley's own time of need.
<span class="mu-b">"Careful little goddess, do not go promising what is not yours."</span> Darry quietly intervenes to caution you about your behavior. He surely has his own misgivings, but he speaks for the rest of your assembled court, who bitterly observe your offensive behavior.
Of course you're not a liar, and would gladly give what you can spare... that's just the old Menaji way, of being an overly generous host! But a whole part of your negotiating is to act so overtly loving and sweet as to overwhelm the opposition, and much of what you say may be exaggeration. Unfortunately these people haven't known you long enough to understand that, and also in this particular case the men of Hewe seem guarded towards what seem like offers too good to be true.
