[color=92278f][/color]Jessie had to crane her neck to look at the fashionably dressed woman who sat at her table, being unwilling to remove her booted feet from the chair she'd commandeered from another table. Jessie had been staring at one of the TV's dotting the place, forcing it to flip through local channels looking for something good. However, it was all breaking news about this fire, something she wasn't interested in dealing with. Now however, she had a distraction in the form of her friend Zoey. At the mention of Professor Devil, Jessie quirked an eyebrow. She leaned back in her chair and tossed her head backwards, looking back into the restaurant with an upside-down gaze. 

[color=92278f]"Well I'll be damned..."[/color] She muttered, irritated with herself that she hadn't recognized the red-skinned man earlier. Of course she was familiar with the Bastion, everyone who lived in Bell Reach was. However, she had known of him longer than that even, he and her father had moved in the same circles before... Well, before the Boom, at least. It was odd to see him slumming it at Little China though, one would think he could at least afford Uber Eats or something.

The hanging silence of Zoey's question brought Jessie out of her mind with a start. [color=92278f]"Huh? Waiter?"[/color] Jessie looked around the place, then down at the egg roll she had speared on one of the cheap, wooden chopsticks. [color=92278f]"Uh... You skipped the line, didn't you?"[/color] Jessie asked with a smirk as she realized the source of the rich girls inevitable confusion. [color=92278f]"Zoey, you have to go up to that counter and order what you want, then wait off to the side for them to make it. It's called Fast Casual, I think. A step up from McDonalds, but not the places you're used to."[/color] The brown-haired girl said with a chuckle.

[color=92278f]You go order, I'll get started outlining the paper for you."[/color] Jessie said, taking her boots off the stolen chair and leaning over the table. She paused as she reached for the book however, her eyes glancing over to Professor Devil, then to the TV showing live footage of the fire, then to the suddenly-half-empty restaurant, and finally landing on her friend. Jessie leaned in closely and put on a conspiratorial smile before motioning to the fire coverage. 

[color=92278f]"Unless... You'd be more interested in some... Extracurricular activities?"[/color]