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Arya takes a step back. It's an automatic reaction to the sheer size of the implications. "I've... I've been through this song and dance before," she spits. "It doesn't matter. What you're offering is not right. It isn't what I want, and it isn't what anyone needs."

"Darling, everyone needs a little pleasure here and there," she says, pulling Arya back in, her grip so tight.

Arya hisses at this display of power, her skin crawling. Without warning, she bursts out of her humanoid disguise, her scales slippery, allowing her to escape from Komodo's grasp. Not only that, but she coils around the lizard, her mouth right by Komodo's neck.

Komodo raises a hand effortlessly, despite Arya's coiling her, stopping her bouncer from doing anything rash. "Go ahead," Komodo says. "Give me a wild ride on your venom. After all, you're the paragon of getting your way. Everyone has to do things your way. Giving me a dose of venom will be just like your uncle and his stupid global domination plan."

Arya locks up at that, and Komodo reaches back, grabbing Arya by the throat and yanking her off. The snake yelps as she's tossed onto the bed along with all the other squirming naked bodies.

Komodo walks up to her, pressing a foot against Arya's tail, keeping her from squirming free. Arya lays there on top of the pile, breathing quickly as Komodo leans down on top of her. "Listen here, I don't want to get into all the particulars, but we're not really enemies here. You just have a big victim complex, missy. I understand. You've been used all your life. Someone tries to help you out and they try to get the edge off, and you rebel against them because you've learned to like rebelling." She reaches down, but Arya grabs her wrist, keeping the hand away from her. Komodo just shrugs and keeps speaking. "You're not some liberated freedom fighter. You're damaged goods, and we fix damaged goods here." She yanks her hand away. "It's the same with the world at large. There are just so many people who don't know that they can just enjoy the time they have here..."

A serving girl walks up, holding a nice tray of sweets and breads. Komodo swipes a glazed pastry and takes a big bite out of it. "These senses are all we have to experience the world and to experience life. All we're trying to do is give more to everyone who comes our way." She tosses the pastry and it lands on Arya's chest, its sweet sticky frosting warm against the snake's scales. "You have a problem with that, you can go off and be miserable with your own damn self."

"You're lying," Arya says, smacking the pastry off her chest, the specter of frosting glistening on her scales, but she doesn't care. "You're planning something, I know it."

"Oh, yeah, and how do you know it?"

The rabbit who answered the door walks up behind Komodo and taps her on the side. The owner of the establishment sighs, removing her foot from Arya and turning toward the bunny. "This better be important."

"You, uh, you have more guests," the rabbit says, looking down and motioning towards the door.

There, standing in the frame is Jack, Tobias, Jay, and the bunny they had captured. Of the three newcomers, Jack had dressed himself down into the appropriate attire. Tobias had left his vest at the door, but Jay is fully clothed.

"Well, isn't this interesting, "Komodo says. "I recognize a couple faces here, but this dashing fellow is new."

Jack places a hand upon his chest and bows. "A pleasure to meet the leader of the Pleasure Society, Miss Komodo. I must say, you run quite the establishment. I wouldn't dare try to infiltrate it alone." He leers over at Arya. "Meet us at the station, eh?"

Arya slips off the bed, rolling her neck. "I got myself some valuable information. I figured I'd soften her up for you."

"Oh, I'm sure," Jack says. He snaps to Tobias, who steps forward, his paw upon the bunny's shoulder. "Look, love. As you have been so hospitable, you-you got something... right there, Arya" he points to his chest, stroking it a bit. "Got it? Good. --you probably know that we're all just a bunch of fools, bumbling around for meaning in this life. That's all we all really are, well, it seems you've been doing a lot of soul searching, according to the files you had your personal assistant here gather."

"Quite the martial artist, this one," Tobias says. "You host any kind of fight club? Might want to sign up for something like that."

Arya slithers past Komodo and over towards Jay. As the introductions continue, she whispers to him. "I... I'm not sorry for driving off."

"Yeah, well, we had trouble at the train station anyway. You okay?"

"Oh, I'm fine. It's nothing I haven't heard before," Arya says, folding her arms over her chest, only to flinch when she feels the frosting squish against her arms. "Ah, dammit!"

Komodo holds the girl rabbit close to her while Jack takes the boy rabbit under his. The two stare each other down, both with confident smirks and standing tall. Nearly fully exposed, they only had their wits to get them through this transaction. "So, anyway, you've been working on a big project, or so my associate says," Jack motions to Jay, who turns from his conversation with Arya to acknowledge it. "You're working on something big, and you have his cousin in the middle of it. Very hush hush stuff. Does everyone here know about that?"

Despite the thumping music, more and more of the revelers have stopped their partying to watch the exchange between Komodo and all the guests. The giant lizard snorts at Jack's announcement, pulling the female bunny closer to her. "Are you trying to expose me, Mister...?"