A girl walked slowly down the street, her left leg hanging slightly behind her as she limped under a streetlamp. The harsh and artificial light lit up the bruises running down her cheek and the blood that was still oozing out of her split lip. She touched it lightly with the tips of her thin, pale fingers and winced. She looked up to the surrounding buildings and grinned through the pain as she realised that this was the closest she had been to home in some years. Things hadn't changed at all. She was still limping home with some form of injury all these years later. But this injury was different, she can't remember getting it but by the looks and feeling of it, it was very recent. Possibly within the last few minutes, something was troubling her.
As she was thinking it through her head spun and she fell forwards slightly, her right foot taking all of her weight and collapsing underneath her. Another wince escaped her lips as she put her hands out in front of her to break her fall. Now she had a graze across the palms on both of her hands, for some strange reason this hurt more than then rest of her injuries. The split lip, the limping leg, the possibly cracked ribs, none of this made her cry, sure it made her wince, but the graze across her palms made her curl her legs round underneath her with great difficulty and then sit in the middle of the street crying her eyes out. Wincing with each sob because of her ribs she didn't move for about 5 minutes, not caring if anyone walked past or looked in her direction from one of the many windows above. Rubbing her hands together she decided that she was just being pathetic and needed to grow up. This was what she had gotten herself into all these years ago. She knew the pain came with the job, she knew that not taking credit for her work came with the job. She also knew that every morning when she woke up there was a risk that it was going to be the last time. With a sigh she heaved herself up, only for her foot to collapse underneath her and her head to start spinning again. The last thing she felt was her head hitting the floor with a loud crack and then that was it. Everything went black.