“Respectfully, ma’am, I am convinced of the exact opposite. I do believe you have not, as a community, declared war on the city of Columbus with nothing more than a single cockatrice. If you chose to break the peace, you would be much more efficient, and we wouldn’t be sitting here now. But Walter—who seems to keep his people on a very tight leash—was able to lose a cockatrice without realizing it. Dee comes and goes with impunity, and she can’t be the only one. I can’t say for sure that someone here is responsible for this. I can’t say for sure that the opposite is true, either.”
Umm . . . Unless the girl meant the "man" who claimed to be from the gorgon "community" was a hu"man" and not a male gorgon, it would have to be one of their gorgons. They've already explained how separatist they are from other gorgon communities, so only an insider would know about the cockatrice in the fringe.
