The woman above continued her run, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, leap. Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, leap. The distances between the buildings were more than most people could cover. For her it was second nature, the pacing, the length of her strides, the placing of her feet just before release. She almost allowed herself to reflect on time when her strides had not been so long, her foot not so sure, but that was a long time passed. It puzzled her how all the old feelings were flowing up to the surface, so long suppressed yet so easily awakened as she closed the distance.
She could see it now, the collection of fire globes surrounded by the growing mass, the collection of people of all sizes but all dressed the same. Or all seemingly the same. She wasn't fooled. There would never be a moment when she wasn't hyper aware of his presence on the planet they shared. He was huddled there amongst the lot of them as if he belonged there, as if he was only another sheep in the flock. The vapor of her breath clouded around her head and then faded with the breeze as she slowed to tiptoe around the edge of roof she decided was close enough to the center.
He was hooded and covered up like the rest of them as if the cold could affect him. Pinpricks of anger created a trail up her spine, but the emotion, sudden and unbidden startled her and she quickly quelled it and refocused on him below.
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