If there is one advantage to traveling with a displacer beast and a yellow dragon, it is that bandits (and other more animalistic predators) take one look (or one sniff, as the case may be) at the three of you and make haste to be elsewhere. Of course, Mr. Willoughby's horse is not at all pleased with the arrangement...
The disadvantage, of course, is that now you have two steady streams of questions. Amertine wants to know everything about anything he sees, while Skirrik asks more about people, what they do, why they do it, and the general social and political structure of the (humanoid) world.
With some effort, it is possible to distract Skirrik into answering some of Amertine's questions about, for example, what's a squirrel, and why is it in that tree? - thus achieving some degree of peace, if not quiet.
The other obvious disadvantage, namely the reaction of the non-criminal populace to someone traveling with a displacer beast, is soon shown to be a moot point. As you reach the fields around the next town on your path, Skirrik simply vanishes.
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