After what seemed like an eternity, Maya woke up. The dawn was showing through the ripped curtains, and she took stock of her situation. The room was grayish brown. The windows were too small to get through. The door was open.

The door…open??? She didn't leave it that way…

"Oh god…"

She marched out of there to find Nny. She found him in what was once a living room, cooking a can of Skettios over a lighter.

"Want some breakfast?" Nny asked her.

"What did you do to me while I was asleep?!" Maya raised a hunting knife over her head menacingly.

"Nothing! I swear it! I just checked up on you, to make sure you didn't do something drastic…like commit suicide…"

He was cut off. She was holding the knife to his neck and had him in what was like a Ju Jitsu hold. "Never, and I mean NEVER say the word 'commit' to me again."

Later, after Maya had let Nny go and he had took stock (like make sure his head was attached to his body) they set off into the city. Nny needed to get some food, and Maya was starving, since she had none of the Skettios. They split up, Nny to the market, Maya to the nearest Taco Smell.

Inside, she ordered a taco and a Freezie. "Mmm, freezieish…"

But, like always, something happened to keep her from her happiness. The woman in the next booth saw her slurping the Freezie and chewing on the taco and gave Maya a weird expression. Then, the woman turned back to the man who was with her and said quite clearly, "That girl next to us, isn't she a sight? Her clothes, her food…is that a Brain Freezie? With a taco? She must be crazy!"

Maya was up and with an eight-inch knife to the lady's throat. "How dare you! You have no right whatsoever to say something like that! I ought to rip you limb from limb!

"But no. I'm going to give you a fighting chance. I'm going to just cut off your lower lip, since it's the part you have no control over." And with that, Maya did it.

As all this was going on, Nny had completed his purchases and had entered the Taco Smell. He arrived just in time to see Maya give her speech and cut the woman's lip off. What he saw and heard, he couldn't believe.

"What the hell?" Nny was astonished. But not like ashamed. He was impressed, in a freakish sort of way.

"Let's go." Maya strode out.