Thankfully, "faulty intelligence" translates into the proper context. The violence gets a sideways roll of her head as she expects some sort of response, but she decides she doesn't know what the crazy aliens are doing and lets Spoon handle it.

"You saw the way it was gutted further than a prey animal would be. That was so that it could be emptied of blood. The thwei is," there's a short roll of clicks for this one and a hand motion, and the translator has to speed up a bit, "molecular acid that eats through a claw's thickness of metal in an eyeblink.

"We have evolved with resistance to it. We meet them in close combat. I did not expect another species to do so. He bit its throat open."