"Did anyone here get themselves involved with that?" Erin asks, pointedly, while she heads to the buffet herself to fill up a plate. "'cause if not I'm gonna put money on you having bigger, distinctly non-human, problems. You're not on your world, Demona. These people are not the people you're used to, which brings us to a fun game called 'are you capable of rational self-interest'. Can you guess how you win?"