The sunlight on Adell's skin was starting to hurt, and she ducked under an awning beneath the entrance of a shuttered storefront to catch her breath. She arched her eyebrows in frustration, struggling to peek out under the awning and at the rooftops. Silas had a penchant for climbing buildings, ostensibly to look at stray cats, and she could never understand how he could ascend so quickly. She knew how<span style="font-style: italic">she</span>could, but leaping a storey was kind of a dead giveaway of something less than human. A young girl who looked like a gentleman with white hair and red eyes already had enough strange things about herself.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">"Let go!" "Shut up, bitch!"</span><br/><br/>Her attention was diverted by screams and shouting just a few metres behind her. Adell ducked into the little space between the closed door of the shop and the proper street, peeking out at the situation. An ordinary, plain looking girl, perhaps just a few years older than Adell, was being held up by a couple of local thugs.<br/><br/>"And this is what I hate about this part of town," Adell muttered under her breath. Even in the sunlight, she could deal with a few thugs that tried to rob her; it helped that she looked so strange that most thugs would avoid her on purpose. The need to do something gnawed at the edges of her mind, almost overriding her need to rest from sunlight exposure.<br/><br/>"Just a few more seconds," said Adell. She drew in deep breaths and stared intently at the group, using whatever left of her brain that wasn't wrecked by sunlight to size them up. The thug with the knife was probably using one with stainless steel. If he had used silver, she would never stand a chance.<br/><br/>She was roused from her thoughts by a loud thunk from the group. One of the thugs crumpled onto the ground as a red brick landed on his head.<br/><br/>"Get off her, you bunch of bullies!"<br/><br/>From the rooftop just above Aris, a young teenager with black hair and golden eyes looked downwards, his gaze filled with disgust at the thugs confronting the girl. A small kitten looked around nervously in his hand; Silas had caught it from falling from the rooftops, just beside the bloodied body of a black adult cat. Dogs had gotten to it, and Silas could barely leave this poor thing to die.<br/><br/>"Meow," it mewed in fear.<br/><br/>"Don't worry." Silas turned to the feline he held in his hand and smiled. "It'll be over for them soon."