I turned my attention back to Cherish. Shatterbird was saying something to her, her lips moving in the rhythms of speech beneath the glass beak/visor that covered the upper half of her face. She was using her hands to punctuate her words. Cherish didn’t respond.
It’s probably nothing nice. Shatterbird didn’t like Cherish even before Cherish turned out to be planning

and frankly, she’s kind of a bitch.
From the length of Shatterbird’s speech, I took it to be some kind of monologue or lecture.
Hmm. Cherish didn’t get caught trying to make that deal with Imp, did she?
Not that Shatterbird wouldn’t already be inclined to do this just from her previous offense. Also, if Cherish got caught, she’d probably be dead or worse already.