Noelle had said it was a contractor relationship, but, truthfully, Anais wondered if it was even that. It was a lot to provide them with if all they were doing was killing the monsters that may or may not appear. Monster hunting was hardly simple, of course, but it still seemed like quite a bit to provide them with just to kill monsters.

And then Gunnar stood, and she frowned, watching him apologize for something he hadn't even said. Perhaps, she thought, this sort of conversation was best kept away from people who weren't nearly as suspicious of their "benefactors" as she was. She would have to see about getting Nadir's phone number from Zale afterwards, of course. Nadir had seemed reasonable. He hadn't gone along with them, after all, when Zale had approached them both.

"Hydrik," she said after a moment, "if the conversation makes you uncomfortable, we can always change topics. I do not believe either of us would be offended if you said as such." She and Noelle would just have to talk about it later away from him.