Why would this idiot’s attorney of all people watch us at the diner?
Billie tried to wrap her mind around this connection. Judging by the way she acted, the woman was definitely aware that a meeting was going to take place in Burgertory. She was there for a reason. It wasn’t the police documents that she was after, she was interested in what was going on at the table where the group sat.
Billie’s brows lowered in frustration. She found the woman intimidating and didn’t want anything to do with her. The fact that she could be after them, for whatever reason, unsettled her.
Billie sent a quick frustrated glance at the kid as he appeared to have suddenly materialised next to her.
She was planning to withhold any information about the woman until she got a more satisfactory answer out of these people, but the kid evidently didn’t care about her wishes or have the foresight to realise that talking about this might have not been the best idea.
Billie hadn’t even realised that he was able to spot the woman as well. She was under the impression that only her and Altier had been aware of her presence. Maybe Oswin saw something that they didn’t?
She didn’t want to let him talk about it so early. She needed to find a way to shut him up quickly.
But how?
John’s eyes were now locked at the kid, she couldn’t do anything…
As Oswin looked at Billie, she was staring directly in front of her with a blank expression, trying her best not to show how frustrated she was so that John wouldn’t suspect anything.
Billie didn’t have time to stop the kid when he began talking.
her eye twitched several times during his attempt at an explanation. Her expression became more and more pained as he went on.
He doesn’t know anything, does he? evidently, the kid wasn’t aware on any of the woman’s actions that made her so suspicious. The way he described it made her seem like just another customer at the diner that Oswin thought looked cool.
The way it was, Oswin’s explanation made things worse as it painted this woman as someone they didn’t need to be concerned about, not ideal if Billie wanted to find out anything about her. She needed to do something about this.
Now that the cat was out of the bag, Billie had no choice but to provide a clarification before the kid’s words got dismissed by John as unimportant. Her plan to drip-feed her knowledge to the broker in order to get as much information out of him as possible had failed as soon as Oswin started speaking.
Letting out a sigh, she spoke, cutting the kid off before he made them look even more dumb.
“This woman was watching us back at the diner. She had some kind of tablet. Got real mad when that waitress turned on the-” Billie paused for a second, thinking what the device from the diner could be called, “the thing that makes sound go away, and walked out.”
Suddenly, she remembered what Altier had told her back in the car.
“That guy…” she added, nodding towards the catwalk where Altier was standing (if he was still visible from her point of view) “…he saw her around the back of the diner… also watching him…”
Billie looked down for a brief moment, slightly embarrassed. She hadn’t spoken so much in a while, and it felt awkward to say something more than one short sentence at a time, it wasn’t something that she was very used to.
Now that I said so much, I have to ask him…
Billie looked up at John with a stern expression. “Why would someone like her be interested in… this?”