Roxanna had been staring into her coffee as she spoke, and even as Kate started to speak. She looked up and was about to reply, and startled so badly she almost fell out of her chair.
"What in the fucking name of all that's fucking unholy are those?!" she shrieked. In French. She tended to default to that when she was startled or upset or pissed off.
She set her mug on the counter, hands shaking so badly she almost dropped it. "Look, I don't know what the fuck is going on," she said, switching back to English. "But I have had it up to my eyeballs with things I don't understand, can't explain, and don't know anything about."