Martel's a sorcerer and a scholar, but at the end of the day, mostly he's cranky and violent. He does rein in his first impulse to find it, kill it and wonder what it is later - while this might end up being more or less what needs to be done, he didn't make the name for himself that he did by jumping the gun.

(He did manage to quite often find reasons to find things and/or people and kill them. To be fair.)

After a pause, he exhales. "We might have to convince it to mind its own damn business, then." Or kill it. Look, he's had a stressful few months, please let him kill something-

Stifle, Martel.