<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">Despite all of her excitement to see the Big Apple for the first time in over a century, Vye could do little more than maintain her breathing as she traveled down Broadway to her hotel. The extended limousine was exquisitely furnished and the spacious seating appeared to comfortably house a dozen people on its black leather benches. However, Vye felt like she was stuck inside of a mobile shoebox. She felt so constrained that she would hardly move. Trapped inside of her ephemeral prison, Vye watched the city lights glimmer in the evening sky with the hope that she would be outside beneath its starry radiance momentarily.<br/><br/>Vye had almost forgotten about her irrational fear of small spaces when she had decided to travel to New York City from Picardy, France. Rumors had reached France of the eradication of those monsters who could shift forms between animal and human. The thought made Vye sick with anger. The vary ability that enabled her family to heal the sick for hundreds of millennia, the government now wanted to exterminate from the planet as an annoyance and blight to humanity. She wouldn’t stand for it. Other rumors had also filtered in through most of Europe that the largest group of Accursed were taking residency in New York City. Vye had taken an eight hour flight on a prayer that she could be able to find others like herself and fight against the government.<br/><br/>However, all of Vye’s drive and ambition currently rested in her shoes with her stomach. She clutched her forehead with her fingertips, trying to keep herself secure as the vehicle traveled along the multi-laned streets. She had wanted to be near the center of the city, and she couldn’t think of a better place than on Broadway at the On the Avenue Hotel. She would only a block from Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum, and much more, but she was starting to regret that decision as the long drive from the airport was wearing on her soul. She knew she didn’t have much longer to go as they neared the Park, but that notion didn‘t help settle her frazzled nerves.<br/><br/>Suddenly, a very familiar yet foreign smell brought Vye from her pseudo-anxiety attack. She wasn’t good at sensing people, especially in new places, but it was one smell that she could never forget. It was as old as time and seemed to carry her back home. There was another dragon somewhere nearby. Vye’s initial ambition flooded her being as she desperately tried to focus on the scent of her distant cousin. For once, Vye was happy that the traffic was slow as she attempted to pinpoint the smell her kindred. She needed to find them, whoever they were, to join the fight against ignorance and save other blooded from certain destruction.</span>