"Don't you tch at me, we are honoring the terms. You can operate in Gallows Hill, and we won't interfere. But there's at least five different clans of creature wintering there; that's a low-population district for former- and nonhumanoids."

[A second smaller bag drops, this one cradled by the tentacles and then shifted to Mayuko's arms.]

"It's as if those men were brought in and promptly forgot the cardinal rule."

[Mayuko lifts her chin. Or they were never told doesn't need to be said, but she doesn't know what Jason was thinking.]