"Oh." Whoops? Oh well. She mentioned only keeping it around for her mother's sake, so she obviously didn't want it there if she could help it. Ew.
She turned back to face Alyssa, and made herself comfortable by sitting in a chair across the table. She'd already gotten close enough to Alyssa, and if she was going to get sick, she was going to get sick. But she sat away from the girl anyway. "So..." She was going to be terribly blunt. "Why isn't the Zale who should be here... here." Surely Alyssa would know that she meant. That her brother should be here. Why hadn't she told him?