Maybe all this shit is starting to get to me, but that does seem weird. That she didn't come talk to you or anything. Maybe Bub said more than she's letting on and she didn't want you to pick up on it. I dunno. The pepper imps might just be pepper imps, though.

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She wants you to talk to someone from the Bureau of Magical Beings? Nobody knew what that bird was. Maybe it really is an unknown species and they want to get as much information as they can. That would be [...] pretty amazing, don't you think? [...] Are you gonna do it?