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@esmeralda-gramilton This happens before 9:00, but idk exactly when.

@urwen-starial Well. Hopefully this makes sense to you. XP I had her fall asleep so then it can be closer to 9 or the meeting or whenever when either of them wakes up so that way maybe the timeline can be made more sense of, but you can have Talia be awake by the time Kirat wakes up or still sleeping or just waking up, whatever. I don’t really care. 🙂 So… basically, you can just do whatever with the time. XD

Talia didn’t catch up with the kid in time to tell him about the side street. After they passed it, she darted down an alley that she knew cut through to a street up ahead… where she would hopefully be able to catch up then… and before she ran out of energy and collapsed, too. She was already breathing heavily, seeing as she’d already been on her feet for nearly four hours straight.

Fortunately, just as she swung out of the alley, the boy tripped. Okay, so that wasn’t very fortunate for him, since Talia could now hear that a lot of other people had started chasing him in addition to the officials, but now she could help. She ran over, grabbed him by the arms, and dragged him back into the alley she’d just exited.

As the commotion of the crowd following the boy grew nearer, Talia stepped back out into the street and pointed up it. “He went… around… that corner!” She quickly pressed herself back against a building as the crowd surged past her. At least they’d bought it. She walked back into the alley and checked on the boy. Unconscious… the poor kid. She needed to take him somewhere safe… at least until the chase blew over, but where?

Well, her apartment was in the direction the crowd went, so that was out. So were all government buildings. Welp. The park was where she’d thought of before, so that would have to be where she took him, since it was the only other option close enough that she thought she’d be able to drag the boy without collapsing herself. Right. “Onwards… to the end.” she muttered to herself, then resumed pulling the boy by the arms. She’d carry him, but she didn’t think she’d be able to manage it that far. At least she’d try and avoid the rough parts of the streets so he wouldn’t get too banged up. Hopefully.

Several long minutes later, Talia dropped the boy behind a curtain of mostly healthy shrubbery and plopped down next to him. She leaned back against the stone wall behind her and closed her eyes, trying to get her breathing back to normal. She was too tired to go anywhere for the moment, so she might as well stay here until the kid woke up. And make sure he was okay, too. Before she realized it, though, she was asleep, too exhausted from going straight from her waitress shift to running all over the city in a matter of seconds.