"I cannot eat."

"Cute," she says with a chuckle. "I'll stick to matching the pronouns y'all used for each other unless I'm in the mood for weird looks then."

She tuts and looks across the array of remaining snacks. "Now I'm torn. Don't wanna ask y'all to stick around here while I spend another two hours finishing these up, don't wanna miss out on the New and Interesting People opportunity, and don't wanna skip an opportunity for more power that only costs the lives of some murderous cultists when I'm in a dangerous new world."

"Decisions, decisions," she finishes with a contemplative hum.

"The world's full of plenty enough assholes, if that's your taste."

"But - you said new world?"

She hums. "My taste is cute girls who are also fair targets, or cute girls who volunteer. So that somewhat filters the asshole population a bit for me. And really I just don't like passing up a resource."

She shakes her head, sighing. "And yes, I did say new. My experience of this world starts no more than an hour or two ago, prior to which I lived my whole life in a radically different — and magicless — world. My old world had far fewer direct threats, as best I can tell so far, so I definitely do not mind acquiring additional power with which to defend myself."

"Joy." She seems to be thinking more - but she doesn't share her thoughts, not yet. 

She hums thoughtfully, tilting her head. "Gonna need to figure my way around this place. Don't even know where 'here' is yet."

Hum. "I wouldn't be surprised if exploring takes us a few hours, if you want to go cautiously at first and return to this room a few times."

She tuts lightly. "I've explored everything that side of this chamber," she points with a tailtip at the hallway she came from. "Nothing there except shitty weapons and personal effects. I took the interesting books. There may or may not be more beyond this room in the other direction, I don't know. We could go take a look, see if there's anything else of value to be had, but mostly by 'this place' I mean the whole world."

She shakes her head and laughs ruefully. "If I know the person who dropped me here — and believe me, I do — then there will be very good reasons not to try to hold onto this place after getting what we can from the general vicinity."

"And - whatever just happened, it was loud."

"We're pretty much in the middle of nowhere, but someone can come looking regardless."

Sable drops her face into her hands and sighs. "Yeah, that was my stumbling into their ritual, deciding that sapient sacrifice wasn't allowed, disrupting it, and the resulting boon settling onto me instead. Might as well bail, as much as I might prefer not to waste these snacks."

She shakes her head. "What do y'all have by way of escape options? New instincts feel like I can grow wings, but that would leave you behind unless you can too."

"I can climb and jump - and we have magic between the two of us, though not for flight."

She hums thoughtfully. "If this is a conveniently foot-traversable middle-of-nowhere, that works, but we have no guarantee of that."

She looks Shendi and Lacuna up and down. "How much do y'all weigh, together?"

"You're not picking us up."

"Fair enough," she replies with a shrug and a smile. "There goes flight as an exit strategy unless I wanna leave y'all behind. Oh well!"

She looks the remaining cultists over, then sighs and forms six stinger-tentacles, jabbing each with a lethal dose of paralytic venom. She unties her rope from their limbs and starts coiling it back up.

"Another couple minutes and I'll probably have these two digested, and then I'll be able to keep up on an escape."

"I can poke around until then."

(She doesn't discernibly react to the deaths.)