Damn, I was hoping for them to come to come to some kind of conclusion after he figured out 'Drugs are bad, m-kay'. Oh well, guess it'll be later, or he's actual toast later.
She's planning to feed it to him, as revenge.
I saw her asking the sweet question and immediately thought… "Holy hell, that's strong!" Her being to able to do that within line of sight (or even further) just is the cherry on top.
"We're looking for this specific snake enemy. Tastes kind of...
Okay, this would've been better if it didn't specify Ruby, but just went with "Subordinate" or "Servant" or something like that. Still worth getting an existential crisis over, but definitely not cutting it as close as putting him back with this trauma.
Nice place to end it, really. The end result is a foregone conclusion anyway, so better to just let folks imagine it for themselves, instead of putting everyone through that just to annoy half of your readers with a choice they don't agree with.