Defaulting to a professional inquiry is a valid method of overcoming anxiety. Paladins are supposed to fight monsters. Aboleths are bad and tend to need disposed of. It's a perfectly legitimate question. Out of left field, perhaps, but this apparently badass adventurer is probably the most likely person she's met all day to actually have a line on some Aboleths blood.
Defaulting to a professional inquiry is a valid method of overcoming anxiety. Paladins are supposed to fight monsters. Aboleths are bad and tend to need disposed of. It's a perfectly legitimate question. Out of left field, perhaps, but this apparently badass adventurer is probably the most likely person she's met all day to actually have a line on some Aboleths blood.