Prologue
The light of the crackling flames brightened that moonless night in the center of the park. Rising higher upon the weathered and chipped white wood of the ancient gazebo. Crawling up as it ate it's fill for survival, not knowing as it neared the top, it would eventually die.
Smoke wafting up upon the gentle breeze of that unusually chilly August night could easily be seen for miles around. And though none lived near this section of the park soon the flames would reach high enough that any second story window could see them and the watcher call in that deadly blaze.
Rustling some leaves as a figure stood from behind the bushes around 4 meters from the building turning to ash, eyes glowing in the light was the only thing seen before a quick turn and that person couldn't have been no more than a figment of whom ever had seen them.
A whistling of wind wove through the trees which surrounded that empty and long forgotten part of the park. Dodging and ducking around trunks and low branches, leaping over stumps and bushes, before coming to a abrupt stop.
Standing knee deep the shadow peered out into the night before reaching a hand up removing a woolen cap and letting strands of silken ebony fall over shoulders and down to the middle of her back.
Closing eyes of sapphire she tilted her head backwards as if to look up into the sky. Hearing upon the softly moving air the faint sound of water from the miniature waterfall that lay half a mile to the north and the sirens which became louder by the moment moving closer to the park in the east.
Judging the time to be approximately 4 am she had to move quickly. This wasn't the first time she left The Facility in the middle of the night but as she left more the further she had to go. With an exasperated sigh she began the trek, which would take at least 3 hours for anyone else, back to where she belonged.