The French Riviera has long been a favorite playland for dodgy characters of all stripes.

four men generally like to mess together, and one cooking pot among them takes the place of a mess-tin or dixie

The mouth is always available for service; the breast is not. So the anticipation is breastdirected. The beselved body in fact lives more outside its literal Habit.

The drones in A2 were only retrieving hosts for implantation, so we don't know if they could transform a victim into an egg. (for that matter, xforming into an egg isn't even a fact, but there's no proof against it yet,...)