Billie and Zoey found the Crabs already done cooking, with their guides digging in, sitting on logs around the boiling pot; Vern was eating some claw meat, Gunter had gone the direct route and was working on de-shelling two crab torsos, and Gale was munching on a leg, Zoey and Billie both took some crab legs and began eating.
"Wow!" Zoey cried out. This truly is delectable." Billie paid no mind and looked out at the stars, determined to memorize their positions and wonder if she could create a constellation; with Bee focused on the stars, she failed to see Zoey take her desire for Crab legs too far as she proceeded to do the same thing Daisy had done and began breaking the shells with her teeth. Lost in flavor, she wasn't paying attention when her tail came unwound for a moment and wagged at the new flavor.
"By the gods," Gunter said, keeping his words in his thoughts as he watched the scene unfold "She has a tail!"
"And she's eating the shell," Gale pointed out. "Kind of an obvious giveaway that she isn't human; a normal person would break their teeth on that,"
"Oh no!" Zoey realized as she hurriedly rewound her tail around her waist. "I hope Mistress Bree didn't see that!" Zoey continued eating as though nothing had happened, not even thinking to see if the humans had seen her slip up, nor noticing her mistake in eating the crab shell and all.
"So, are we kicking this chick's ass or what?" Vern demanded as he put his hand where his knife had once been, "Oh Son of a…regardless, that punch I gave her earlier is beginning to make me feel like I was being a little too polite before,"
"We do nothing," Gunter declared without a hint of hesitation, "I am not going to fight a woman with a monster under her employ haphazardly; we take her to Reopes. Reopes has a zero-tolerance policy for slavery, as decreed by demon lord Argit. Gale, that armor lets you contact your wife, doesn't it,"
"Yeah, why?" Gale demanded, looking at Gunter.
"Because last I checked, your wife was under contract in Reopes; that is why you demanded we take this job, was it not?" Gale didn't reply and instead turned a light shade of red as she muttered something that went unheard, "Please contact her and tell her we are taking a suspected Slave driver to Reopes; as it was Argit who had her contracted, I'm sure she can get a fair number of guards to meet us, and they should be more than capable of taking care of Ms.Billie should she be who we think she is,"
The Trio looked at Billie in silence. Although no words were said, she could feel the sudden chill of their eyes all locking onto her at once and was immediately able to identify the hate in the gazes being directed at her.
"What did I do?" She demanded, utterly bewildered by their sudden and seemingly out of nowhere increase in hatred.