"Watch it with this guy. If we could get rid of him, we would've..."

The problem with this guy was he kept managing to live. Even if the horse ran off with him, even if he just faded into nothing, his return was kind of inevitable... and annoying. But any creature probably missing its head gave a good indication to its frustrating resilience.

"We gotta drive him off before any of his friends decide to creep in."

Or, if they could figure out what they actually wanted, maybe he'd finally leave them alone. If only he'd stop lobbing off heads long enough... or could speak.