Wandering alone and lost (open)

[Arael Hiroshi]

Arael was wandering around in a daze. She had walked two thousand miles only to find out that the last of her relatives had died. After sitting in the empty house for awhile, she decided to visit the city one last time to see how it had changed in the three years she had been gone.

She found what looked to be a marketplace. It had the most people in it that she had seen in a while. Not surprisingly, she could feel many eyes watching her. She was a stranger after all. She stood out in a place where most people knew each other. She kept an eye out for people that she knew, although she doubted that she would see any.

[Kyrie Blaze]

Many eyes were on the newcomer, indeed. Whispers carried. But even before the whispers reached her ears, pale and crystalline blue eyes were curiously locked onto her target. Though Kyrie walked slowly, she still crossed the ground easily. She was scouting out the last few locations for the Groves that would be secure enough, and a newcomer to these parts in a forage to the Neutral Territory.

And by the rate things were going, Neutral Territory was simply territory waiting to become Dragon Territory.

Kyrie was actually out to gather more seed packets, which meant venturing further abroad than even her former place of shelter. And that location she had cleaned out on the first Grove project.

The blonde tilted her head as she shadowed the dark-haired girl, not directly behind, but about ten feet back, and on a diagonal. The slender female weaved through the small crowd with ease, rarely directly looking at the person she was tailing. Rather, Kyrie kept an eye on her without doing so, using windows and her peripheral vision as she looked around and up and along the street. A small hand reached up to brush back her long, curly hair away from her eyes and back over one shoulder.

[Arael Hiroshi]

Arael continued to walk through the marketplace, the hair on the back of her neck prickeling when someone stared at her. As uncomfortable as she felt, she had to keep moving. As long as she kept walking she wouldn't think, and as long as she didn't think she could not feel the pain of loss building up inside of her.

Occasionally she would look back to see if anyone was following her. After the sixth or so time looking back, she realized that there was a blonde woman following her at a diagonal. Arael didn't think much of it at the time. The woman might just be following the same road to somewhere else.

[Raikotsu Sudeki]

Rai was sitting on a rooftop nearby bored and just wasting the day away, it was one of the few days he actually had 'off' so he spent it just watching the people. Then he noticed Kyir but something seemed off... It seemed as though she was trying to NOT look somewhere specifically, so he followed her gaze to a face he hadn't seen before. Interesting... I wonder how this is going to end up. He wouldn't stare at the new girl too long, that'd be kinda creepy but instead he would continue on looking bored waiting to see what Kyir or the girl would do next.

[Arael Hiroshi]

After walking another half-mile or so Arael looked back again, and saw that the woman was still following her. She decided to do an experiment. She started to walk slower, not by much, but enough to see if this woman was passing through or following her. If the blonde kept the same pace as before Arael wouldn't worry about it. If she matched Arael's pace, she would be confronted and asked as to why she was following Arael.

[Kyrie Blaze]

. o O ( Hm... My apologies for not getting to this sooner, but it's best to wait, sometimes, for the other players to post so you're not assuming their character's movements. <3 C: )

Arael would perhaps get that half-mile, but she wouldn't find the blonde was still following. Someone in the throngs of people knocked into her, and in her typical wary fashion, Kyrie disappeared into their shadow. The man blinked with a surprised noise and turned to look around. This gave her the opportunity to use the connecting shadows in a game that was a cross between hopscotch and red rover to make it into Arael's shadow at the edge of the crowd.

From her position - unseen to everyone - she continued to observe the dark-haired girl.

She seemed nervous. Walking slower. Walking faster. Looking around. There had been at least one time that Kiyr caught her looking back, when her gaze actually did pass directly over her; she had simply been keeping tabs on her movements without staring at her like a creeper on the rooftops would.

[Arael Hiroshi]

(No problem

Arael looked back again, but the woman was gone. "Hmm, curious." She said softly. Then turned around and kept walking. The sun was starting to go down and she was quite a ways from her new home.
She started back, but the sun was sinking fast. Arael was going to have to move quickly if she was going to get home before sundown, that is if she could remember how to get home. She had wandered all over the city and didn't know where she was. Arael decided that she needed to ask someone for directions, but she didn't see anyone around. "What the heck!" She muttered to herself. "I've been watched all day by tons of people, but when I actually need to talk to someone there is no-one around!"
She was starting to worry after a mile of abandoned storefronts and warehouses, when she saw someone in a doorway. She didn't think about how dark it was getting, or wonder about why this man was just standing in a door way in the middle of an abandoned part of the city. She just wanted directions and then she would leave him to himself.

[Raikotsu Sudeki]

Rai had decided to follow the girl when Kiyr went to shadow hopping, even with his Mutes contact lens he couldn't keep up with the girls movements. So he just went rooftop to rooftop follow as much out of sight as he could. Lucein would be having a field day if he were here. Rai thought to himself.

When it started getting late and it seemed obvious that the girl was lost but Rai wasn't quite ready to interfere after all he was only spectating for now. He left any interactions up to Kyir, though he was unsure about the man that was in the doorway of the building across from the one he was now perched on...

[Kyrie Blaze]

From the gray and black and white world she dwelled in, Kyrie watched the man before scanning around. He seemed normal, but then...looks could be deceiving. The blonde girl within the shadows was a testament to that.

She didn't appear, but watched and waited.

. o O ( Don't know what you have planned for the random guy. C: )

[Arael Hiroshi]

As Arael walked over to the man in the doorway, she started to see other men in the alley way beside the house. At the moment the didn't bother her, but she kept an eye on them just in case they decided to bother her. She walked up to the guy in the doorway.
"Excuse me sir? Do you know how to get to Long Beach?"

He turned his head towards her and smiled at her. "Sure I know how to get to Long Beach, but why should I tell you? How about this. I'll tell you how to get there after me and my friends have a little fun first." That moment, the men in the alley ambled out. There were about five of them they moved to surround her and block her escape route. The guy in the doorway moved up to complete the circle around her.
"Scrap! What did I get myself in too" Arael muttered to herself. "Well," she said bravely, "Quite a show you got there. Six strong guys against one girl. How so not impressive." She ridiculed them further. "Are you so scared of me that you can't even beat me one one to one? How pathetic."
One of the beefy guys growled and sprinted full speed at Arael. She heard the footsteps and simply moved to the side and let him charge past, whacking him on the back as he passed. He stumbled into one of the other guys in the circle and knocked him down.

[Raikotsu Sudeki]

Rai wasn't sure what Kyir was doing but he trusted that she knew when it was going to be time to step in. But just in case Rai did start to relax into his meditative fighting state like Delilah and Mathew had taught him to do. So far the girl seem to have a hold of the situation though. Maybe he wouldn't need to help out at all.

[Kyrie Blaze]

The girl seemed to be doing okay for now...

Kiyr continued waiting and watching, her lips pressed into a firm line before dipping into a frown. Reflexively, her hands clenched and unclenched. She wanted to see what caught her eye about the girl, other than the fact that she was just a different face.

[Arael Hiroshi]

(I'm going to number the guys 1-6. #1 being the guy in the doorway.)

After guy #2 took down guy #3, Arael quickly moved between #4 and #5. Stepping in with her right foot, she used her right elbow to smash in #4's nose. Then stepping with her left foot in the same motion, she brought her right fist around in a roundhouse punch to #5's jaw. She spun around then because #2 and #3 were getting back up. Running lightly, she came up to #3, who was the first to get up, and launched a kick straight to his nose. #2 had disappeared, so all that was left would be #1, the man in the doorway.
He stared at her in shock, and cringed as she walked over. "Now, about those directions?" She asked. "O-OK, don't hurt me!" He whimpered. He then looked behind Arael, smiled, looked back at her, and winked. She started to turn, then felt her arms get pulled back into an arm lock she couldn't get out of. She ran through the scenario in her head. She had gotten 1,2,3,4,5, dang it! She had missed the last guy.
"Scrap! I missed one!" she said, almost laughing as she said it. #6 pulled her arms tighter. "Ouch!" She cried out.

[Raikotsu Sudeki]

Rai readied his blood bullet just to be safe, he wouldn't need full power for this one but he was definitely ready in case this turned out bad.

[Kyrie Blaze]

Though she wanted to, Kyrie held her position. The girl had been laughing a moment ago, and her ouch wasn't quite believable enough for the blonde holed up within shadow to act.

She was, however, poised to spring.