Lily was well and truly fucked. She only wished it was innuendo. She had been on the run for a good time now, and in the three years since she left Insurrection she had been training, getting her mutation under control and learning everything she needed to keep herself and those around her safe. Then she learned how to throw anyone looking for her off her trail.

She had been back in Insurrection only a month, and now the agents were back on her. She knew taking part in that underground fight club was a bad idea, though she was hard pressed for cash and betting her last hundred dollars against the opponents there was the fastest way to grow her money and ensure she wouldn't have to worry about it for a while. Unfortunately she had not anticipated how quickly her pursuers had put word out to the criminal underbelly of Insurrection. It wasn't long before they found her trail again and despite the fact that no one would guess she took shelter in a convent or be stupid enough to attack a place of worship, she had to shake them off and make it back home safely in the first place.

"There! Down the alley!" Lily cursed as she heard one of her pursuers call out to his friends and start chasing her down the alley. It was a dead end, the route blocked by a chain link fence and barbed wire. An obstacle she could easily jump over, but the gunfire coming at her was annoying. She activated her mutation and transformed the rest of her skin to dragon scales, just to keep her protected long enough to escape. She reached the end of the alley and leaped over it, before landing on the other side and making a dead sprint for the exit.

Another three men appeared at the mouth of the entrance to cut her off. "Oh fuck this!" She cursed as she inhaled and let out a jet of icy mist that encased them in ice before they could draw their guns on her. She was tempted to smash their frozen corpses apart just as a warning, but she would not be so barbaric. No point giving them more fuel to hunt her with.

Lily, in an attempt to evade reinforcements, ducked into another alley and down a manhole into the sewer system. She had spent so much time down here mapping out the important routes back to the convent lately that she might have better lay out of the sewage system than the city did. It didn't take long for her to find her way back and hide in the basement, washing off the stink of her escape route. She would have to take the fight to her pursuers at one point, if only to prevent them from catching her scent again.