Grey took a breath. Why could nothing ever be simple?
He had gone through all the trouble of getting his hands on the Mechanical Jaw Lineage's Tome, and now he found out just its simplest blueprint was worth so much and he couldn't even use it?
While Grey hadn't known the Barkeep for long, he knew that that smile not only meant "yes", but it also meant that he had no plans of explaining further. In that case, he could only guess himself.
'It can't be as simple as the Mechanical Jaw Lineage coming after me, right? If they were so dangerous, then why would they need me to find their tome in the first place? The Quest heavily implied that they were pretty much all gone. Unless…'
Grey suddenly recalled how eager that prick had been to kill Globb, almost like the gnome had been tolerated until now, but the moment he crossed a line, he was wiped from existence.
