With every passing minute, Lily's options were running extremely low, and she couldn't help but feel that every single choice she had made for the night had been completely wrong. Not only did Graffiti disappeared onto the rooftops, but prior to her rushing away from the scene, some other creep made a split-second appearance holding what Lily could have sworn to be a head. But who knows, it could have been a bag of food as far as she could tell.

"I understand," she replied, even though that's not truly how she felt, "and I'm sorry about the hostility, but I don't want any trouble." With that, Lily lowered her weapon, although she didn't necessarily put it back in her purse. Instead, she let it hang by her side, finger still resting against the trigger. "I just met Graffiti when I knocked on the front door to the diner. I was attacked in the cemetery, and I needed help. I promise you I wasn't doing anything wrong." 

Lily wasn't necessarily throwing anyone under the bus, but she was tossing the victim card around in order to get Red Claw to hopefully feel some empathy towards her. That, and Graffiti could gain some serious advantage time the longer Red Claw remained distracted. Lily couldn't necessarily follow her up the fire escape, but she would just walk around and find another way to the rooftops. That would only happen if Red Claw bought her lies and agreed to leave though. 

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