John ran along after Chris, noticing that he seemed to be experiencing some sort of pain or discomfort. [color=00a99d]"Come on...d-don't falter now...k-keep your head!"[/color] John cheered at him, the pain from his own arm causing his sentences to break with sharp inhales and exhales. Some distance down the alley ways, and just before a turn, John looked back to see if Valkyr was still pursuing them. He saw nothing, but that alone was not enough to assure their safety...not for him. As Chris continued on, John quickly moved to knock over some trash cans in an attempt to fake a path that Valkyr might follow, and once he was done with that he tried to catch back up to Chris.

Valkyr, however, was blindly running into almost every trash can in the alley as she followed what she thought had been the path of her prey. New sirens approached from somewhere behind her, and this time they were the sirens of ambulances, to which Valkyr only growled. It seemed as though she was starting to calm down, but not by much, as she was beginning to carry herself a little bit less like an animal and a little bit more like a human being. But that wasn't going to make her any less dangerous...