Lily was tired of being the mouse in the maze, never finding the cheese, the hamster on the wheel never going anywhere. Would they forever be hunted,forever have their identities used against them, this black mail? Would they forever be forced into links?

She planted her feet firmly, placing her hands on her hips, she let Moe's lead to slack, just slightly. 

"Do it. Give my information out, because I'll never join someone who thinks blackmail is useful. Do it, because I'm tired of this game. Do it."

There was every bit of challenge in those two words. 

"You can't pull me in. I was walking my dog, nimrod. I don't have my link with me"

That would enable her some semblance of control, but she had no doubt when she turned it on that she would be pulled in. The phones had given her some freedom from the link, and leaving it home had been a way of making sure that she wouldn't be pulled in, and that Moe therefore wouldn't be lost to her. 

She didn't even know if the guy was nearby, but she suspected he would at least hear her words. "I'll run home, Angelo. I'll be there soon"