Tally's escape from Deigo was icy. Very icy. As she ran away from the hospital Tally found a group on five or ten hover boards. She smiled to herself, "Just like the old days." she thought. Tally grabbed on of the hover boards as she ran by the group and kept running. While Tally was running she flipped the board upside down, discovering that she had taken one of the Cutters boards. The board had lifting fans like the Rusty's Helicopters and magnetic lifters so it could fly in the wild and in the city. It looked like the unlucky Cutter, probably Fuasto, had left their crash bracelets hooked to the bottom of the board. That was very happy-making for Tally. Doing several cartwheels over the large deposits of flaming debris or crumpled up sidewalk was no problem for Tally. She was still sad, but her mind had become focused and icy. She knew what she had to do, seeing the other Cutters alive gave Tally hope. Now she had to find David. Tally snapped on the crash bracelets threw the hover board far ahead of her. It instantly turned it's self to zero gravity mode, floating farther away from Tally, as it got rid of the extra momentum. That was just what Tally wanted though. The board had a safety feature that if it fell or was in someway of harm that it would automatically turn on and float to safety. Tally's Special body could jog faster than an average human could run, and in her eyes the board was like prey. She was the cat and it was the mouse. Tally began to run after it, incorporating all sorts of flips and tricks. Turning her chase into an elegant dance. Tally smiled and hopped on to her board, taking on the stance of a surfer and gaining speed and altitude. Tally looked up into the sky and saw a large cliff at the edge of Deigo. Just before city limits. Tally shuddered, remembering her last experience with Overlook. But of coarse this huge cliff was her only way out of the city. It took Tally about thirty minutes to reach the top of Overlook, and bout ten feet away from the edge of the cliff Tally kicked in her new board's liftingfans and gained even more speed. When Tally finally left the edge of the cliff she turned of her lifting fans and soarded through the sky. Her magnetic lifters ere already off. As Tally floated through the sky, letting gravity and momentum pull her along, Tally smiled. She remembered that David and herself had pulled an awesome trick like this. David. The adrenaline that had been masking the despair was almost completely gone and thus the meager covering of the pit that now filled her stomach was gone to. Tally switched on her lifting fans, the fall was to dizzy-making now that Tally remembered David was gone. When she finally reached the jagged tree tops just outside of the Deigo boarder she stopped, violently pulling her board back so suddenly that she fell. Tally's crash bracelets were useless without the city's magnetic grid. But she was Special and the world was only a play ground to her. Grabbing one of the multiple Pine trees branches and postitioning herself was too easy. like a teenager playing on the little kids' monkey bars at the park. Tally looked at her board wich shivered uneasily in the wind while it tried to make up for the suddenly lost weight. Tally sighed deeply and called the board over to her spot in the tree with her crash bracelets. Finding a branch close to the size of a human wrist, Tally snapped on the crash bracelets and positioned the hover board over them. The boards indicator lights in the front flashed green and the board didn't even shudder in the wind because it's magnetic lifters had found the metal crash bracelets to hold onto. Tally looked out onto the city of Deigo. First she lost Zane and now David.
Tally looked out onto the horizon of the wild. It was sunset. A beautiful sunset of multiple brightly colored hues. A sunset like this would have amazed her when she was a littlie. Now it only taunted her. Tally Youngblood, a Special, a Cutter, who wasn't supposed to know how to cry, felt the tears come again..
