"A spare tail? Oh, gods, no. That was her real tail, snatched right out of his deepest treasure vaults. Child's play, really, since I slipped away from you as soon as we entered the palace, to retrieve it. Did you even notice my simulacrum there, with you?" she asks, teasingly. "And, no, I think Inoue will break the news well enough. In fact, letting him squirm the whole way home should be curse enough, in my book."