What a surprise, a human dealing in misery. Algidus scoffs, but his gaze is not disapproving--far from it, in fact. It seemed that as long as the suffering wasn't directed at him or his people he didn't have the same disgust for it; all of the cruelty he'd been subjected to by humanity had hardened him. If that was the language they spoke then he would converse with them. That AJ was offering him a truce but willing to harass others just made him grin.

"That is also something I can abide," he nods, folding his arms across his broad chest. "If any of them give you trouble, I can keep them in line... providing you share what you glean from them with me."