"I missed", Ajax said somewhat disgruntedly at the floating halfling to answer three of the five questions she threw at him in the span of a few seconds. He surpressed a smile as he cleaned out the chunks of wall from his fist and took stock of the chaotic situation around him. He didn't like the airs his employer put on, or really any sorcerer he'd ever met, so he derived a good deal of enjoyment from to the damage to her property. Not to mention his general enjoyment of a good ruckus. In many ways he was as simple a brute as his looks implied. 

"We had a disagreement over matters of courtesy", he continued. "I do not take intrusions and challenges lightly". The best lies are the ones that had some truth to them, and the things he had said were quite true. He held no real ill will towards these people, not even the tiny nuisance questioning him, so best they learn some one simple fact early: he was not to be trifled with.