Name: Jonathan Miller
Location: Lower-east Side Manhattan
Faction: Demon's Run
Affected RPers: @Desolate Divine

"Come to my apartment in an hour and we'll discuss it there." he replied, "But first, Catherine the Great is in trouble. In an alley two blocks south, one east of you. Make sure she is alright, then both of you come here. Iketani out."

"I hear ya."

And then I hung up. Now this was really bad timing. I only debated changing back for a second before deciding to hell with it. Finding and keeping Amy in one piece was more important than concealing this. I quickly grabbed a blanket on the way out, wrapped myself with it, and tried to cover as many of the flowers as I could, but it was a really half-assed effort. There just wasn't any time to change back to being human.

Following Cole's directions, I headed down the two blocks south and searched the alleyways. Fantastic. Some short schmuck with dirty clothes who probably burned through every last dime just for drugs. Boy, hadn't I seen plenty of these kinds of freaks before.

"You heard me!" he shouted at Amy. "Just put them both on the ground, walk away, and don't make any sudden movements or I'l..."

"You mean like this?" I asked him as I attacked from behind.

Throwing out the vines around his throat was a quick way to lasso and get this chump to drop his weapon that he stuffed into his pocket. And I almost cried with laughter when I saw the "heat" he was packing in his pocket had fallen out and landed on the ground. A god-forsaken banana. I figured he was hoping someone might think the bulge in his pocket would be mistaken for a pistol.

He couldn't breathe as I dragged his body away from Amy so she didn't have to deal with this druggie. He looked at me and his eyes went wide as he saw I wasn't the human he was probably expecting to see. But he couldn't talk and instead just gurgled for air.

"Don't... killll... meeee..." he begged with the last bits of air he had left.

I decided to recall the vines and he collapsed to the ground on his hands and knees, trying to fill his aching lungs with air again. He looked up and began to get really nervous.

"You're...?"

"No," I told him, kneeling to his level and looking him in the eye. "You ever think about touching her or anyone else like that and I'll end you.

He nodded, slowly got to his feet, and then just ran like hell. Idiot, for sure, but I couldn't blame him for being a coward. Not every day you nearly get choked to death by a guy who looks more like a flower than a human.

As much as I wanted to get the story about what the hell just happened, I couldn't act like I knew Amy. In fact it was better if I pretended to not even notice her. If she wanted to follow-up about this, fine enough, but out here in the open air wasn't such a good idea. Who knows how many people out in the streets saw me like this already.

For now, I figured I'd head back to meet up with Cole. Thankfully the only harm that came out of this was just a loss of subtlety, and that was something I was willing to deal with.