OOC>>>I know the word you are referring to, but at the moment, I cannot recall it.
Oh well...
IC>>>
"I did what had to be done, nothing more. I will not hold you to any service, though, so do not feel that you owe me anything. Yet, I know that to reject your proposal is an insult to your beliefs. I do not wish to insult you, so I graciously accept your binding offer. Let us be known as brothers.
As to that thing...I know not what it was. My animal lore extends only to natural beasts of the field...and that was certainly an apparition of an evil neverbefore seen by mine eyes.