"You shouldn't, she was a terrible one," Billie says outright to Strange's deadpan. He may mean it in jest. She, however, does not. It doesn't help that he's prodded a topic far more delicate than what she is. The who is more complicated than the what will ever be.

See, that's the problem with helping out like this. If it's outside who you already know, people pry and think, oh, they should get to know you better! Though she's not regretting helping Lykos out in the long run, that Daud would just abruptly decide to lend a hand... For free, of all things...

But that's a lot that Billie has to chew on by herself. She isn't sharing it with Strange, so all it does is drag out the silence between her insulting her mother and answering. She buckles her coat shut and turns to heft up the string of fish before even saying anything more and then it's just something simple like, "I used to work for him, that's all."