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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karl Green" data-source="post: 1917128" data-attributes="member: 1467">New York City, Hell's Kitchen, 11:31pm Oct 30th, 2004///cut scene... later that night... on a dark and rainy night in New York City...////Crashing into a pile of overfull garbage pails, the young girl cries in pain and shock as she falls in among the trash "Damn it… to much noise…" Quickly rising to her feet she looks around, back the way she came, down both side streets even up… fear reflecting in her eyes. "Maybe I have lost them…" she says softy and then starts running down another ally, sticking to the shadows and trying not to cry out loud in fear. Her hand ideally reaching into one of her shoulder bag, stroking the golden mask hidden within "Got to get to somewhere safe… got to hide from them… keep it safe… don't let them get it…" she mutters quietly to herself, not even aware that she is taking out loud. After a few block the young girl leans against a wall, panting with exhaustion. Her street cloths more soiled then normal and barely protecting her from the night as the temperature has dropped to just above freezing. The streets and buildings are wet from the rain that has just stopped and it might very well snow tonight before morning. Not a good night to be out, but she is to afraid to go to any of the homeless shelters, it is far to likely that 'they' would be waiting for her to do just that… 'they' would be watching all of them and she could not chance it… they must not get the mask…Just then the young homeless girl notices what she is leaning against, the window of a local pawn-shop, and through the gated-glass she notices most of the TV inside are all broadcasting special reports about a terrorist attack in Central City at a local mall that involved the newly created TITAN team. A group of teenage sponsored metahumans with the sole propose of training them on how to use their abilities. Many of the reports are questioning just what the government is thinking placing children in danger like this, or talking about the death toll of at least 47 people confirmed dead, 287 wounded, and 34 missing. Also some 50 terrorist are under arrest (most of them at local hospitals). The young homeless girl hears none of the facts or numbers, they are irrelevant… these… Titans… they could help her, keep her safe "They could protect us both…" she says softly to herself, or maybe the mask, as she slowly rubs its golden surface. Then the picture of a young man appears a number of the screens, recorded earlier from the scene of the terrorist attack, one of the Titans it seems… Her hand softly touches the glass as she mutters "I…I know… you… we are connected… you are the one…" "Kleines Mädchen… where are you? Comes out and play…" a voice echoes through an ally a few streets back. Instantly the young girl curses herself for being weak and stopping for to long… they had found her, she had to run… and run she did… "Sssss'eek, findsss her. Do not letsssss it esssscape. Le Maître demandsssss itsss" The hunt is on, the prey running through the concrete jungle with the pack of predators on the trail…  a trail leading west towards Central City</blockquote>

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