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Zoey appreciated the effort of the stranger giving her a cigarette. Even though she had others (that were also menthol!) and had a bad feeling about this place and this guy. However, with Penny here she knew that she would never let anything bad happen to her. The girl slid the cigarette between her lips and ignited it with her lighter. The stranger then goes on about the symbolism of the song... one that admittedly went over Zoey's head at the time (mainly this song was one helluva past from the past and she hasn't listened to the Killers in years). 

[color=f7976a]"He's asking God for help. "No one realizes the meaning behind this song, or the symbolism. There was a reason I picked it, not only because it cranks but - the vocalist is asking for help. He's asking God for help because he's fucked up, he's so far gone. He's done something terrible, or is it his inability to do what he wants in life? He needs god to help him achieve that. I'm sure a lot of you are feeling like you need god right now, I do too and I can relate to the song. I don't know how I got here, or what here really is? The Big Empty? Hell? One thing I know for sure is, God isn't coming to save us. He's dead."[/color]

Zoey took a long puff of her cigarette and of her mouth out came a cloud of smoke. She kept her eyes on her boots as she said, "... God's not dead, [i]that's[/i] for sure." Zoey finally spoke to the stranger as it seemed a strange nerve has been hit. She went back to avoiding eye contact as the girl introduced himself... brandishing a strange badge. "He's probably not going to save us, though." She looked off to the side.

[color=f7976a]"Agent Prescott, Bureau of Occult & Paranormal Activity. I also go by Elron, depending on your preferences of professionalism. I apologize if I came off as rude earlier, I just feel so excited. I don't know why."[/color] 

"Huh?" Zoey spoke muttered to herself. So he was some kinda secret government agent or something? This didn't make any sense to the girl. The girl muttered something else to herself that was hard to hear, something about a "Farmer Hill".

When Elron pulled out his badge and introduced himself, Odessa's smirk immediately disappeared. The girl furrowed her eyebrows and leaned in really close to get a good look at it. "... [i]Huh?[/i]" Odessa said confused as she stood straight up and took a few steps back. She was thrown off... and yet it didn't hit her until a few seconds later that Elron was still being cocky and annoying to the girl. And she probably provided the catalyst for him to act even more arrogant.

[color=f7976a]"You seem to be the smartest one here miss, and the calmest. I never claimed to have all the answers to this place, but maybe you do?" [/color]

Odessa shook her head from left to right as she took a few steps back and planted her behind on the table. It took a second but that cocky smile returned to her face as she shrugged nonchalantly. "Your guess is as good as mine, I was asleep and then I was here," She shrugged as she planted her hand on the table, "Obviously we are here for a reason - possibly paranormal - but I'm not sure what."

There was a pause.

"... and can I see your badge again."

After listening to them converse Zoey finally had enough. Right after the newly introduced, Mao kept talking weird the girl got up off the barstool after taking one more drag of her cigarette and gave everyone a look. All of this was getting so fuckin' annoying and she couldn't bear another second of it. She shook her head as she said, "Okay, let's do this name game bullshit so we can move on: name's Zoey Gray, I'm from the same shithole in Montana as her-" Zoey jabbed a thumb in her direction. "-and I was in LA partying, passed out, and now I'm here."

Taking another puff of her cigarette Zoey said,

"I think we're all getting a [i]little[/i] ahead of ourselves, don't you all think?" Zoey started, "We're just in an empty city and [i]before[/i] we start tossing around conspiracy theories an' shit - [i]how about we just go?[/i] It's a [i]novel[/i] fuckin' idea ain't it? I've got my fill on weird shit and magic and I don't plan on sticking around to find out what sort of [i]magical weird shit[/i] is going on in a place [i]so aptly named[/i] Paradise."

After her speech, Zoey slumped back down in her chair and looked off to the side, avoiding eye contact with the group. She couldn't even take another drag of her cigarette before she added on,

"... and I don't think we're dead, I don't [i]feel[/i] dead. Going off my hangover."