[center][b][u]Carmen[/u][/b][/center]

Carmen listened intently as Maria started explaining what was going on. One eyebrow quickly shot up in confusion and a sprinkling of disbelief as Maria explained a...game? She sat there processing the information until suddenly she had picked up a paper with a number on it. She looked over at Lily, who had seemed to get along well enough with meeting Crash and was now staring at her paper, assumingly in a similar state of confusion as Carmen.

Carmen looked at Lily with a look on her face that said [i]exactly[/i] the following (without making a sound):

[i]Wait. Maria went to the trouble of making [u]us[/u] go to the trouble of interrupting our wonderful fashion adventure in a manner that seemed fairly urgent entirely to bring us here to play...a [b][u]GAME?![/u][/b][/i]

Her left eye twitched when the facial expression reached that part.

[i]Also...what on Earth is this?[/i]

At that point she absentmindedly held up her piece of paper, conveniently (but unintentionally) keeping the number hidden from Lily's or anyone else's view.

[i]I'm confused again...and tentatively aggravated. Isn't this kind of authoritative and supernatural abuse illegal? I demand a lawyer.[/i]

To this day, a more complicated facial expression has never occurred.