[CupcakeDolly]

Rue ignored the old man and kept quiet. One of the weak ones already knew her name, and that was more than enough. She mulled over her predicament, wondering if the benefit of possibly gathering more useful information would outweigh the cost of towing along more excess baggage than she really felt ready to deal with. After a little while, she decided to wait and see how she felt in the morning. Nobody had said that she couldn't go to the same place separately from the others, after all. With her strength replenished, she reasoned that she might be able to get by with only the help of her newly re-hired bodyguard.

Speaking of which, Rue glanced over at the return of the gunman, seeing that the gun had returned to his hand. She caught a fresh whiff of the stench of death they had so recently escaped from, and thought nothing of it at first. A quick glance into the maelstrom of what passed for the man's thoughts had her laughing morbidly.

"Well! It is good to know that keeping you fed will be quite easy."