With a small smile and a nod, Judith drummed her fingers gently against the steering wheel. "Well, that's good to know," she told him genuinely.
Judith let a comfortable silence fall between the two of them for a while as they waited. Digging into that unwillingness to give an allegiance wasn't really worth it; maybe Derek really did just want to freelance his way through so that when the chimera thing was over, he wouldn't feel obligated or roped into the next inevitable big bad and Judith could respect that. It was exhausting to do what they were doing, both physically and mentally. She couldn't very well begrudge him wanting an easy out when the current threat was neutralized.
"That's her," she spoke up suddenly, seeing the girl whose image Carl had text messaged her earlier walk out of the shop. Judith started the truck but made no attempt to pull out of the parking spot just then. "With the blonde hair and the white top." She looked over at Derek in a quick glance. "Ready?"