Stealth was completely abandoned as Winona and Cassidy flew down the disjointed alleyways. The girl produced wave after wave of earthen tremors, on the off-chance that the lizard might be injured. They met few people, and those they did see were too wrapped up in unsavoury deeds to notice. It seemed that they had ended up on the wrong side of town.

“It’s hopeless, Cassidy,” Winona moaned as she fluttered to the ground. The mutant is gone, vanished.

Cassidy screeched a high-pitched hiss. “It’s never over. Why can’t you be positive for once? Just focus on finding that thing.”

The conversation was evidently over. Winona picked Cassidy up and sped down the alley again. She was grateful for the mutant’s size, there were a million and one hiding places in the backstreets for normal humans. Someone like him would need to find somewhere much larger.

An ashen haze enveloped the duo as they found their way onto the street. Everywhere was a hurried throng of automobiles and people. Suddenly finding the beast-man got much harder. Winona glanced at her surroundings: a suave café, unlikely; a few residential buildings, impossible; that left a deserted furniture store. It made sense, seeing how it was the closest building to the alley. She strode in calmly and braced herself for the sickly sweet clerk that would inevitably meet her.

No one came. She began to get worried; had the lizard hurt someone else? In her angst she began generating greater tremors than before, until everything in the shop was in mid-air. She scanned the room repeatedly, finally catching something out of the ordinary.

Pathetic, really. A massive industrialized town and a mighty serial killer hid behind a couch? Winona fought the urge to laugh as she walked over to the man. This time she wasn’t taking any chances. Savouring Cassidy’s presence be her ankle, the girl summoned an enormous earthen cage for the monster. It entrapped him before he had the chance to even think.

“Game, set and match.”

OoC: If you think I've overdone it, say the word and I'll edit.

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