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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tokiwong" data-source="post: 1207127" data-attributes="member: 961">Absolution.She was young, but not innocent.  A child of the streets, her parents long gone, perhaps she never really had any, a cast off in a harsh time, a lost child in the wind.  But people were dying, dying in numbers that was unfathomable, but the only thing that mattered to her was survival.  Nothing came easy, and because of it she was smart, and had the instinct for survival, but she lacked the education of a typical youth, reading, writing, she didn’t know how, but she knew where the best place was to find food, or seek shelter, or just how far she had to run before the cops gave up the chase.She could run.Running was something that she had done all her life, running through crowded streets, or the empty streets after the Absolution, she ran.  Staying idle was just not her way, she wanted to get out of the life that God had set before her, but it took money, it took skill, and luck, but she was determined to make it.  She never feared the Absolution, in some ways it would have been a release from her life, watching the more privileged eating a daily meal with hard earned money, laughing with their family, and all she had was the cold.  Gangs, other displaced youths, and the authorities always out to round up wayward youths causing trouble.But she could run.When the new order was established, she migrated to the city of Hope, hitch-hiking her away across the country.  She literally hoped to find a better life in Hope, and although she had little education she was willing to work hard for her money.  She didn’t want to steal, she didn’t want to suffer, and for the first time in her young life, she found a place that was truly wonderful.  She worked hard, and although the pay was meager, it was more then she could ever dream of, even though she lied about her age to work, she never stole anything, not like the old days.  She didn’t have to.  She was in a good place.  But then there came the tests…She didn’t know what they were testing for, and when asked to read the pamphlet handed out she just faked it not wanting to reveal that she could not read.  She just wanted it to be over, so she could return back to work, and she waited in line, quietly.  When it was all over she waited in the office outside, as hours passed, and many left, she felt it odd to be alone, after so many people had passed that she had begun to worry.   Had she done something wrong?  Had they found out she was working illegally?  Not wanting to find out she got up, and started to run.But she could not run fast enough.She was one of the 1327 people in the world that had the new strain.  Absolution was such a fear that they placed her in Cryogenic storage.  The city of Hope had become a frozen Hell, for her, and Absolution would not let her go from its grasp.Powers: Super Speed with a Light motif, she leaves trails of light behind her when she picks up speed.  Incorporeal because she can actually cause her bend to refract and bend like light and lose substance when she runs, passing through solid objects.  Have not decided on a name yet, hence the liberal use of she.Description: Mixed Black and Korean girl, athletic build, very attractive, soft quiet personality, not very arrogant, very modest, and tries not to reveal her many flaws or something</blockquote>

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