Not long after following her last words, the bedraggled and pitiful pup tumbled from its deceased master's coat pocket. She watched as it made a few futile attempts to wake the corpse, but before she could respond to the confused whimpering, the lead (and now only remaining, she barely registered) hunter knelt down and called the little beast over. As the bond rose from cold embers to a warm flicker in the space of a few breaths, Liliana's eyes dropped to half-mast. Though no other physical features changed, an air of... softness... seemed to linger about her shoulders for a moment, touching the inexpressive brow and warming the flat line of her mouth. It was gone almost as quickly as it had come, the auburn-haired woman's response giving her a rarely-needed reminder. Before she could answer, the grumbling vocals of the giant thundered softly at her side, and directed a question toward the other.<br/><br/>Her attention may have been minimal before (she was fairly tired, and it was only getting worse), but at the sound of his question a more perceptive Liliana stepped in to take the reins behind her eyes. Her unreadable, murky gaze flickered to the amber-eyed shooter, listening closely to every syllable that broke from her lips. Apprehensive and awkward, to say the least, and that was just her actual words; the expression on her face was tight, strained, just as much as it had been in the clearing filled with the cadavers of the harvesters. But the time for such discomfort was passed- surely<span style="font-style: italic">one</span>body, not even that badly desecrated (comparatively) shouldn't have the same effect. And the giant mutant... he hadn't offered to share his human meals with anyone before, despite being strangely generous. Why this woman? Liliana was almost certain he wasn't joking, though in truth she barely knew anything about any of these people.<br/><br/>Still, the woman didn't<span style="font-style: italic">look</span>like a cannibal. Not as much as the giant, anyway. Beyond that, was it really any of Liliana's business?<br/><br/>She just wanted the strange man's leftover husk out of the small room; the scent had been overpowering almost immediately, and it certainly wasn't getting better with time. It hardly mattered who did what with him, the same as with any other body.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"Eat me, and I'l kill you from the inside. My meat is poisoned, you see. Protection."</span><br/><br/>The new corpse's old words echoed from the back of her tired mind rather suddenly, as though they had been waiting for the proper moment. Instinct brought the words to her mouth without her consent and impulses fired to the muscles in her arms, and she should be reaching, grabbing, talking, warning- but her body remained still, the instincts finding nothing save a deadened shell to bounce against. Her nostrils flared a little. He<span style="font-style: italic">did</span>smell poisoned, at least he did now that he had a rotten disease eating posthumously away at his lower limb. Liliana wasn't sure if such a thing were true for the rest of him, since it did sound like the sort of bluffing, aggressive bluster a threatened man would say, and even if it were true she wasn't sure it would matter to either of the two potential diners. While she contemplated the necessity of speaking up, the behemoth had lifted the dead flesh as easily as empty burlap and departed; she turned just in time to see him squeeze the last of his bulk through the door frame.<br/><br/>Only a beat passed, and she turned to the woman who had come with the demons.<span style="font-weight: bold">"He said his 'meat was poisoned' before he fell out,"</span>she said in her customary flat tone, as though she were merely relaying the most boring of facts,<span style="font-weight: bold">"Remind him, too, before you start."</span>She gave only the slightest jerk of her head to the door, indicating the recently-departed giant.<br/><br/>With that, she turned away and started to roll up the blood-stained blanket, movements smooth and leisurely as ever.