"It does," Billie agrees, no answer appearing from her, having not dug that deep into it just yet. Her kneejerk reply would be 'wet dog smell' but Daud won't find that funny, so, she doesn't use that. Her attention flits back down and away from Mercy, to Daud, then to the shrine he'd put back together.

The cats look to be almost about done, meaning...

"If you're done with the cats, could we move on?"

Unless he had another reason for stopping here, anyway.