Neither Lunise nor Marod seemed any more interested in approaching the chaurus.

"Might I ask, for what purposes do [i]you[/i] use these creatures?" Marod said. "Pest control? Guarding?"

"I recognised its meat being used in the feast," Lunise mentioned.

"Oh?" Marod turned his head again. "In what?"

Lunise lifted an eyebrow. "You did not see the shells they were served in? That was chaurus chitin holding chaurus flesh. Steamed, I believe."

Marod's smile took a turn for the noticeably forced. He went white. "...I was under the impression that was crab meat."

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Sabine shrank somewhat. No amount of good reasons could shake the guilt she felt for Ri'vashi's emotions. Rather than try to coax anything, she shook her head and got straight to the point.

"Ri'vashi, is there a way we can still be friends with this between us?" Sabine asked more forcefully than she planned to. "It is important to me."