[Well, there was no point in waiting around and feeling sad about, say... the fact that he kept having inconvenient reminders of Feelings or the fact that he liked talking to Caren and now she was dead or stuff like that. No, Tarrlok was a man of action, and he definitely wanted to get a discussion going about what the hell was that, now that he wasn't busy cooking.

...of course, he wasn't quite enough of a walnut to try and approach people who might legitimately be grieving about the whole thing, as much as he really wanted to... so he essentially took a corner of a table in the dining hall, set out a notebook in front of him... and sort of tapped his pen on the table, in the hopes that people would recognize that he wanted to talk business. If anyone sits down next to him, he'll start out, then...]

...all right, so, it's clear that whatever that was in the pit couldn't have been Pearl's reanimated corpse or anything, given that we had what was effectively her actual body with us the whole time.

So, any ideas on what that thing wearing her face even was?