sorry so late, life ate me!
Anita smiled back, her eyes cautious. Only two kinds of people wore whips - the utterly dorky and those who really knew how to use them. This woman was anything but dorky.
"Seeing as how this place is totally freaking nutso, I can believe the garbage can appeared out of nowhere. Hell, I would believe it if the can sprouted legs and antennae and claimed to be from a galaxy beyond Alpha Centauri."
She sighed. "This city messes with your sense of...hell, everything."
Eying the costume, whip included, Anita started to get an idea of who this was from other people comments and memories of her own misspent youth. But better to be sure...and proceed slowly.