(This topic takes place before the game [i]Mirror's Edge[/i]. The world enforces normality, meaning human forms, and no magic or armor. Kynthia, myself, Adri, and The Doctor are allowed in on this one, as previously discussed. It encompasses seven weeks of training in "the City", various physical exercises, including parkour, close combat, and perhaps some more.

For Azumi, this takes place after "Side 2: The Fat Man" and the scrapbook "Passing the Baton", but before "Welcome to the Sprawl". For Isaac, this takes place after "Before the Storm", but before the later topic "Man of Conviction" and "Of Wolf and Man".)

[i]Don't think, just run. Don't think, don't think...[/i]

Her light brown hair was cut short, green eyes wide as she sprinted, breathing fast. Her white T-shirt and blue track pants both had spots of dirt on them, as did her navy jika-tabi split-toe boots. Her age? Just twelve.

Slide under a pipe, avoiding a crack of a sniper round on a lower roof against the metal, standing directly after. Don't stop, don't stop... There he was! Across the building. She ran, ran, her legs going up on the side of a building for a few steps before....

Launch. Grab the electrical wire, slide down, down the way... both feet hit the pole at the end, and she dropped down, breath heavy.

"Up here!" he shouted. Good enough, he knew she was there.

Arms reached across her shoulders, pulling off the yellow shoulder bag. She reached back....and threw it as hard as she could, up to his grasp, just barely making it to his hands. "Go!"

"I'll call Leaf to see if--"

"Go, Kreeg!" As he ran, she sprinted over to the nearest door, punching it open, running inside, laughing at another successful run. She slid under two construction workers with a wooden board between them, almost making them drop it in surprise. "Sorry!" she shouted back, hearing the oncoming City Eye helicopters. Not her best day. She kicked in a next door...

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Isaac Zivaku was enjoying this world....marginally. He still had his green eyes, meaning he was in another non powered world, but it wasn't raining this time. And he hadn't run into too much trouble, though a few of the police around were sort of jerks at times, especially since the average Interference didn't exactly have an ID card. That said, he was still walking through the office building, trying to get a map as he was going with Cheryl. She wasn't that far behind, but it was still awkward to say they just....appeared here. So he didn't.

He did see someone, however. Although her [url=http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu121/UMIYURI/AzumiCasualConcept.png]outfit[/url] differed, he did notice Azumi Ian from the horrors of Space Paranoids. Apparently she was doing better, since, while still seeming slightly off, didn't seem to have many problems at present. Granted, that slight bulge on her jacket did indicate that she did have a gun on her, but that would be handled later.

It was then that the blur sprinted through.

"Sorrygottagothanksbye!" the twelve year old called back as she almost ran into Azumi, making her stagger back a bit before continuing on her way out the back toward the elevators of the building.

"..." Isaac just...watched that happen. It was odd, yes, but the urgency... was this an important person?

"...not gonna ask," the soldier in casual clothing nearby said, rolling just watching. "Oh, hey you two. Someone mind telling me..." she mouthed then. '...where we are?'