Daud keeps any opinions of Billie being able to handle kittens to himself, though he will relent and let her take care of the rest. Billie and her rhetorical questions aren't really new, either, so it's no effort to let the conversation switch tracks without comment.

"So they lied about their identity," Daud interprets. That ... is probably no real surprise at this point, but it's also a bit of a dead end at least as far as that train of investigation goes.