Old Acquaintances and lost friends

[Bazza]

Evangeline turns to face Sev and smiles slightly. However her grin is interrupted momentarily later by a coarse, rough shout from behind Sev.

A man whose uniform identified himself as a police officer - the typical Manhattanite beefcake sort - was swaggering through the crowds lunging towards both Sev and the rest of the women who had accumulated together in a group a short distance away - including the eleven-year-old girl Evangeline had adopted as her daughter.

SCATTER! Meet up at the hotel!

The command is shouted out and above the scuttlebuzz surrounding the group, causing instantaneous action from the veteran escapees.

Evangeline grabs Sev's arm and hauls her down one of the platforms. Misaka and Sakura bolt together hand-in-hand through the thicket of morning commuters, both quickly disappearing from view. Fumika sneaks off up an adjacent stairway and vanishes instantly, leaving only Eva and Sev - whom the police officer targets and pursues.

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