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 [right][b]Interactions:[/b] Britney [@Punished GN], Sully [@Atrophy], too many indirect, bitchy mentions to tag
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Linqian was preparing to sprint over to Sully, cover be damned, when he turned the tides himself - and Britney sent some nasty looking plant over to the guy attacking him. 

Her attention was distracted by a ball of fire crashing into the ground and Linqian snapped her head towards it, lips parting at the sight of a St. Portwell Police Officer stepping out. What the fuck, SPPD had magic meteorites now? No way. Things had changed a lootttt since she was last here if that was the case… She mentally made a note of it as info that might earn her some money, before going back to paying attention to more pressing concerns.

Like not bleeding out. She was preparing to just stumble away and get a bus to the nearest hospital where a green light washed over everyone. The bullet hole in her hand began to close, her skin knitting itself back together. The bullet stuck in her side made its way out before the wound itself healed. She let out a slight sigh of relief, raising her body temperature back to normal. Fuck, that felt so much better than freezing blood to keep the wounds sealed. 

She now had a bit more capacity to pay attention to what else was happening - like Alizée getting shot (good riddance), Stormy going after her already gone killer (fucking idiot), and Sully getting kicked by the fucker who’d threatened her with a gun (that had her blood boiling). She moved into a crouching position, peering around to make sure no one would shoot her if she ran over to him. 

With this she melted the strange sight of the werewolf practically melting away and leaving an almost naked man (thankfully he had some really ugly underwear on)... One Linqian recognised after a bit of squinting. Leon. Fucking Leon had wrecked her car! Now was not the time to take it up with him, as much as her anger at it threatened to break to the surface again - not when she could get shot. But when she next saw him she wouldn't let him off. She'd get a replacement car, or enough money from him for him, one way or another. From what she remembered Leon was pretty reasonable, but he also couldn’t turn into a fucking werewolf last she saw him-
[h3][i]"WOLFPACK!"[/i][/h3]
[i][h3]"Ooooooooooh, Judas!"[/h3][/i]
Judas, like the possible father wolf Judas? Linqian craned her neck to get a better look at him. She shivered at the dog like features in them, punctuated by their barks, and tried to press down the fear clawing in her chest. Not dogs, monsters. Somehow that made them less scary to her. But the irrational panic (well, slightly rational here) was still there, making each breath feel like glass was scraping her lungs.

The fear was quickly overwhelmed by anger at the sight of him. She ground her teeth together to try to keep at least a little bit calm in the face of her brother’s possible murderer. Everything in her wanted to jump out and punch him with a burning hot fist… She tried to reign it in. 

He possibly wasn’t even the killer. Looking at him, she found herself hoping it was something… A little better than a small-time biker ganglord. 

As much as she wanted to, there was no way she could go out there and fight. She wasn't that stupid. She would be impaled by whatever metal stuff he controlled before she even got close, if he didn’t shoot her. Then the first thing she'd see in the afterlife, if there was one, would be Jinhai laughing at her. She could already hear him saying in disappointment, [i]why did you try getting revenge when you couldn't succeed, Qian-er?[/i] Just the thought of it irritated her. She knew very well if their positions were swapped that he'd ensure he struck the killing blow, and no less. Jinhai wouldn't risk his life on someone that might not even be her killer. 

She wasn't as calculating as him, but she knew when to not get killed. 

They had to get out of here. If that meant sacrificing Everleigh and Stormy, and a little bit of money from Edict by having less information, fine. She didn’t care much for them anyway… Money could be earned in other ways. 

She glanced back at Sully, the only other person she really cared about keeping alive here, and watched him starting to crouch run towards one of the other coven’s members (presumably, she wasn’t entirely sure they were also a coven). How were they planning to leave? Sully obviously knew them, and they seemed friendly… But she didn’t feel it was right to abandon him with them. Maybe they’d also abandon him. She didn’t know them, and didn’t trust them (even if they’d healed her bullet wounds).

[color=CD5C5C]”C’mon,”[/color] she nudged Britney, which she could do now she was a normal temperature, and jerked her head towards Sully. [color=CD5C5C]”Sully’s on the move, let’s go… unless you’re sticking around to get killed.”[/color] 

If Britney wanted to stick around and help Eve (and less likely Stormy) out, she could be Linqian’s guest. Linqian wasn’t going to wait and watch. She’d sooner run the whole way down the street and get a bus than stay crouched behind this car, at risk of getting sand in her shoes (and worse places) and getting shot. 

Just like Sully, she took off in an awkward bent over run, moving towards a car nearer to him (and hopefully Britney's ride). It looked a little more inconspicuous when she was doing it, because she wasn’t over six foot tall, but it was still much like someone in the cinema trying to go to the toilet while avoiding blocking anyone’s view, but in fact just blocking everyone's view [i]and[/i] looking ridiculous while doing it.  

She didn’t have much experience with running and avoiding getting monster dogs sicked on her. It'd probably just be more efficient to run normally.

[color=CD5C5C]”Oy, Sully,”[/color] Linqian hissed, half waving to him as if that’d get his attention if he somehow didn’t hear her. [color=CD5C5C]”They got a way to get out of here?”[/color] she glanced at Amelia, who he’d been running towards. [color=CD5C5C]”Or you coming with us?”[/color] 

If the few seconds of checking got her killed, then she’d deal with Jinhai’s mocking when she reached the other side.