Thread: Loki's new game (Sapphire Vixen and Josu_T)

In the middle of nowhere. That's where the city Socorro, New Mexico was located. Not for the first time, Raina Cypher found herself wondering again what the point of a city so far from the rest of New Mexico was. It was a couple miles from the Rio Grande, sure, but the citizens seldom ventured to the river. The city tended to keep to itself as long as it was in turn left alone by the various small towns scattered around the forest miles to the west. Raina watched the daily actions of the city with relative boredom, simply skimming a few dozen feet above the height of the tallest skyscraper in the city, looking for any disruptions in life besides the occasional shouting match between a man and a woman on the street. Such a thing was trivial and unimportant to her. At twenty-two years old and with a head of long, dark brown hair and light grey eyes, she didn't necessarily look threatening, but with a pair of wings as white as the clouds miles above and spanning fourteen feet when fully extended, she was, as she called herself, the city's protector. Anything that wished to harm the citizens or anything within the city had to get through her first, and she was not an easy opponent to beat. She did look fragile at first glance, but she was stronger than the average human - not significantly, but enough to make a difference to anyone seeking to disrupt life in the city. She didn't know exactly where she had come from - the earliest memory she had of her life was waking up in a field fifteen years before several miles away. She had learned to fight by experience, but she still bore a few scars on her arms where attackers' knives had barely grazed her and one in her side where one guy had gotten in a lucky shot with a throwing knife. She had fallen rather behind the times, as the weapons she preferred to use were a pair of long, thin knives, but she made up for the antiquity of her fighting style by being quick and extremely difficult to land a blow on, much less catch. Now, as she circled a group of sparrows, grinning a little at the small birds, her thoughts were disrupted by the sound of a male voice in her head telling her to leave the city. From the tone of the message and the slowing of the traffic on the streets far below she could tell that the voice had been heard by everyone in the city. She stopped moving, hovering in the air and looking for any kind of threat, before she heard breaking glass. A hell of a lot of breaking glass. Following the sound, she turned around to see every single window in the tallest skyscraper in the city shatter and fall, as if in slow motion, to the ground, scores of feet below. She saw a small crowd duck and run for cover, and one unfortunate person who might have been leaning against the window when it shattered fall a good ten stories and land on the sidewalk, all within the space of less than a second. That was all it took for the adrenaline rush to kick in, and she shot off toward the building, building up speed until she stopped abruptly approximately fifteen yards from the building. She could see the shape of a man standing on the roof, and he was wearing a green...it look like a cloak. So this must be the voice that had broadcast itself to the city moments before. With a flap of her wings, she brought herself to the edge of the roof behind the man, then folded her wings so that they would not be visible unless she either brought them out again or he caught a glimpse of her back. So you're the one who thinks he can scare us away so easily, she said almost conversationally, walking toward him and stopped several yards away. Before you do something stupid, know that this city is under my protection. Try to do anything to the city or its citizens, and I will not hesitate to kill you. Her hand drifted to her hip, where she wore the two daggers, out of sight, but easily reachable, then back again to cross her arms, waiting for a reply from the stranger.