I'm doing what I must to find the Chalice of Wisdom. What does it matter what happens to such inconsequential animals in the process?

[He doesn't seem to be bothered in the least. If anything blame the one who sent him on this quest, they hadn't said to tread lightly. And for now there is only one animal he's concerned with.]

If you have objections to it, then perhaps you should have brought it to me.