[color=SteelBlue]<Hope you don't mind the cold.>[/color]

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[sub][color=orange][b]Little Athredan - Alleyways[/b][/color]
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Akagalcia struggled to her feet, bracing herself against the wall of the alleyway and struggling to lift her head. The nausea hadn't stopped, but she needed to see. She'd lanced her sunmote right at the runner's back without looking, too busy fighting the pain to aim properly. Thankfully the mote had found its mark; an assemblage of cauterized limbs and half of the man's skull were steaming on the pavement as Rave's coldsnap began to stretch down the alleyway. Nothing else was left.

[i]Good.[/i] Her work done, Akagalcia paced back toward the alley-yard, sputtering with the pain. At least it had faded enough that she wasn't going to ralph the rest of her meal. Between the sudden cold and the sound of combat ahead of her, Akagalcia felt strangely at ease. No matter how strange this world was, no matter how hard it was to find her power, she could still find pieces of home. She had met someone who was awake. She had met someone who knew the value of companions. She had met someone immediate amongst the sleeping.

[i]I can survive[/i], Akagalcia thought, heaving herself another couple of steps down the wall.

When she appeared out of the alley again, the fight was already over, save for the man that had been leading the pack. [color=SteelBlue]"You still think you can win?"[/color] Rave asked, his poised figure menacing with ice knives and the stillness of winter. Akagalcia didn't give the leader time to respond, throwing her kukri in a neat arc so that it sank roughly into the man's skull, dropping him like a sack of potatoes. She didn't move to retrieve her weapon, still struggling against the receding pain to catch an even breath and stop the world spinning around her.

"We do not win," she choked, pausing to spit a chunk of food from her mouth that hadn't quite made it onto her thighs earlier. "We live." She breathed in and out, staring at Rave... just... staring and drinking the past two minutes in...