Eva shook her head, waving her hands in front of her.
"Okay. I should be clearer. I met Effie the day my boss told me I had to go to Electric City. I didn't know her before that. But we got along. So I invited her to go too. I've done the chemical checks before, so that wasn't new. And it's not like I know every single city in the world, so I thought EC would be a shithole cowpoke town or something. I wasn't expecting it to be an actual huge metropolis. That it was what everyone in the world would consider a major city, it bothered me that I hadn't heard of it.
"We got to the hotel, got our rooms, and I never saw her again. She didn't know Rayne. I didn't know Rayne either until the night we ran into each other. Or, more, my shoe broke and I used her as a crutch without asking.