Chur wipes her hand on a napkin. "Thanks," she says, and looks like she's about to start laughing again, but controls the urge. "Hani don't eat living prey, and we don't eat meat-eaters. Kif, now - if a kif comes in, and she's from before the New Peace, before Sikkukuk's death, she'll probably see a human as... an exotic animal. And kif love the status of eating exotic animals."

She decides not to mention, yet, that kif can't stomach eating food that's already dead.