Fortunately the arrows were merely a deterrent. Their "sharpened point" design meant that, unlike a barbed or even tipped arrow, they didn't penetrate far and could be removed easily. They did however contain a payload of a weak tranquilizer, meant to slow down escaping troublemakers, though it would only make him drowsy and not knock him out outright.

Before the Traveler and Solver could discover any of this, the "police" had already converged on them. Aiming their weapons at the two to keep them from trying anything, one of them which was wearing a distinctive white helmet bent down and carefully removed the arrows from the Traveler, taking out what looked like a glue gun and injecting a bio-degradable anti-biotic foam into it, which would gel to stop the bleeding. Protocol may not have mattered for much, but the brutal death of a suspect was not looked upon well by a hyper-urban "community" that constantly balanced on the edge of chaos.

Soon after, the two of them were cuffed and marched into the back of a van. As it traveled along the bumpy and debris-covered cement roads towards the nearest freight subway station, they had a moment to actually explain to each other who they were.

[i](Sorry I overrode the situation, but the characters need to meet up and I didn't realize they would be so far separated for so long. I really don't want the plot to drag on too long or people might complain. PM me if you can think of a better way to handle this situation next time.)[/i]