Lyta followed Lex to the Café, where sat Ellie, Jack, Trudy, and Amber at a table, with Baby Bray fumbling on Amber's knee, and Salene and May at another table. Sammy and Gel were no where to be seen, and Lex inhaled confidently at this.


Amber and Ellie, and Trudy as well, look suspiciously at Lex, then moreso at his glamourous guest. May's face slowly fades to that of misplaced recognition while Salene continues to pick at her food.


"Well, Lex, you were out late last night," Trudy began. "At least you found someone to walk you home..." She eyed Lyta with a snicker. Lex realized that even if she was the Virgin Mary, Lyta would be looked at as a tramp... most likely by association.


He guided her swiftly to the kitchen, and then back around to an outside table, barely setting down their bowls before hearing Ellie's voice carry towards them like dense needles:


"I think it'd be best if your friend left, Lex. We barely have enough food for the day." Ellie spoke with what seemed to be shame of herself more than of Lyta... as if pushed by some moral cloud that seeped from the imaginary eyes of authority. Jack stared at his food, feeling the same uncomfortable pressure.


"We have plenty of food. I just saw it!" Lex's voice climbed to say. His dark eyes flickered darkly as he stared down.


"You know what Lex," Lyta rose from the table with an apple in her hand, "I'll just get going. Come by the Casino later and we'll chat, or something." She gave a fixed smile, chiseled skillfully onto her increasingly nervous face.


Then May rose, having been bashful to approach before, but now was certain in saying, "I know you!" She twirled around the table and her tailwind drew Salene's face, and the other's to follow.


"You're one of the girls at the Casino! You showed me around when I almost had to..." May trailed off cautiously... her neck screwed around to stare pitifully at the shocked faces of the fellow Mallrats, and with eyes kissing the floor she returned to her seat.


Lyta did remember May, but she barely smiled in response to her. The tension in the room was pressing the corners of her smeared mouth shut. She turned again to walk out the mall, looking back once to see one more face staring at her, frozen with surprise.


She was gone.


"I can't believe you arses just threw her out like that. And you! Supreme Mother! I'm sure much more than a draft got up your robes back then!"


Trudy's face became of a flurry of reds and blues, but Jay finally stopped staring at Lyta's belated shadow.


"Who..." he stammered with great consideration. "Who brought her here?" He demanded finally, feeling the staples of eyeballs slice his skin. "Who!" He cried.


Amber finally spoke up, having kept locked for the entirety of these broken conversations, "Do you know her, Jay? You just came in how did you know..."


"Lex!" Jay interrupted quickly. "Was it you?"


Lex stood slowly, "Yeah, it was me. What are you all gonna do about it?"


And the onomatopoeia that followed crackled like a blood explosion.


"What the Hell were you thinking bringing her here? What did you tell her?" Jay further pressed Lex's body to the wall as Amber tried to pry his viced fingers from the accused's throat.


"I... just... was..." Lex attempted dryly.


"Jay let go of him!" Everyone was standing now.


Both Jack and Amber were able to disengage Jay's body from Lex's weight. Jay stared thorns into Lex's chest as they both caught their breaths.


"Are you so stupid?" Jay said venomously. "What did you tell her, huh? Where I was hiding so that those loyal to the Technos can come stake me!"


"What the fuck are you talking about!?"


"Jay," Amber said, confusedly, "What are you on about?"


"She's a bloody spy! One of Jen's little snitch whores."


"What?" Jack chimed.


"In return for freedom to operate without Techno control, Ram requested the... services... of Jen's women."


Trudy's face flushed with shock, but Amber's skipped strait to rage.


"... I never had any of it, but you know how Ram upheld pleasure as the second greatest sensation possible!"


"So how's that make her a spy?" asked Jack.


"They reported back to Jen everything said to them in these pay offs, and let me tell you they weren't put to the designs of Rebellion."


Lex began to move towards the exit immediately.


"Lex where are you going," Amber began, exhaustedly.


"I'm not letting her worm her way around here and get away with it!" He stormed out.


Jack looked around, befuddled. "Not that there's anything to really spy on here..." Amber tweaked her eyebrows while Salene shook her head.