Sunrise came too fast. Cherry scans her surroundings and edges toward an alley for cover.
[color=crimson]"What I'm looking for. What I'm looking for is... a lot. The agenda is a lot. I was just going to paint today. With you? With the faith that you're real?"[/color]

She brings John into the alley. Her demeanor is changing again. She seems to be growing agitated, her eyes widening and her voice picking up pace as she looks into him.
[color=crimson]"I- If you've been around like you say, you know- you know Taygete has an, an infestation, don't you? I'd almost want to call them leeches, but no, leeches can be satisfied. It- it's a-a different kind of parasite, a cancer. They grow and eat and drown out the body because all they know is grow and eat and kill everything they depend on until it's all desolation. They're all over the city center, they're all over history, Rome, Venice, France..."[/color]

She's gotten very animated. She stops in the middle of counting out locations on her fingers, and visibly makes an effort to untense.
[color=crimson]"I could do this for hours. I can go on nonstop about how this city's been trembling on its knees in front of Miss Vermillion since its conception, but I can't right now. Not right here. Not at you, who [i]has[/i] to have seen it. What I'm looking for?"[/color]

Cherry leans back against the filthy brick wall behind her. She fidgets with her braid. Her eyes smoulder.
[color=crimson]"I don't have anything, and they've stolen the world. I'm looking for anything. A single-injection cure. A team of oncologists. At least an MRI scan to start with. This poor goddamn city was born to die. The symptoms are all around us, and nobody has the strength to move."[/color]