Jessica began to carefully sniff out any mentions of the number one. This required her to ball up her fists and get [i]really[/i] tense. [i]All right, one, the NUMBER one. Le numbero uno. The corndog-looking one.[/i]

A tired and hollow voice immediately caught her attention. [i]Sweet! There's one.[/i]

"Yo!!! you with the sword!! we're on the same team bro!!" She whizzed towards her new teammate and began to introduce herself. "My name is Jessica Parker, and I'm [i]also[/i] on team one. Together, we can make eleven!"

The brawler gave a thumbs up and winked, which combined made all who watched feel secondhand embarrassment for a split second. Jessica paused from posing to shove two whole sugar cubes in her mouth and resumed.