Well Slue was actually surprised and a little annoyed that
Jeffsworth didn't know
that the sword came with the standard dragon curse,all stuff handled by dragons
came with the standard dragon curse.
The standard dragon curse?
To turn into a five ton nasty winged flamebreather,flap around on bats wings
fighting and eating knights
and kidnapping and sometimes eating virgin maidens.
What self respecting dragons curse wouldn't do that!
The repeat customer traffic for Slue and other dragon shop keepers
came from the ways cursed humans purchased other items
cursed or not
depending on whether the dragon handling the merchandise
made physical contact with the merchandise.
Slue's brother-in-law was making a brisk trade selling
surgical gloves to dragon shopkeepers
so they could handle the goods without
imparting the
standard dragon curse
on the merchandise they sold.
Slue was pretty sure Jeffsworth was now tainted
with the
standard dragon curse
but that
left the question
Did the Beast come out under the Full Moon
Did the Beast come out every nightfall
Did the Beast come out everytime Jeffsworth handled gems/gold/a hoard?
Slue didn't know the exact answer to that question
so lied to Jeffsworth and told
him/her that perhaps the curse could be undone
but it would require Jeffsworth camp nearby
whilst Slue consulted other dragons on the matter.
And so Jeffsworth camped nearby,unawares
of the standard dragon curse .