Emma's head was silent in a sea of noise. She was also scanning the minds around her, but on purpose. She stopped when she made contact with Penny's. Another telepath. She gasped and looked around for him, then made a beeline toward him.

She was wearing a coat she'd lifted from a mugger over her stripper uniform, but her bare legs and platform heels still made her conspicuous. She marched over, remarkably graceless in her heels. "You! New guy!"