A couple weeks passed. Snow covered everything in soft white. The sky was a pale grey, cloudy. Isa was walking back home until she got a call saying she was need at the hospital again. She dashed back.
Several injured men were in the emergency rooms, all from a ghoul attack. Two didn't survive.
Ghouls. The word echoed in her head, then the conversation with Takatsuki Sen. Why are they in my mind so much?
Isa checked an unconscious man's vitals. "It was a ghoul attack. This is one of the CCG officers," her boss told her. She stared at the man breathing quietly, his eyes shut.
It was midnight and Isa was finally able to go home. The sky was dark purple, bright from the city lights. Isa looked at her boots as they made footprints in the snow. Cars drove lazily on the roads, providing extra light for Isa. Music played from the street speakers and in the entranceway of stores.
"S-someone, please, help me," a feminine voice called out not too far away. Isa snapped her head towards the direction it came from. An alleyway. She hesitated at first, maybe it was better not to go? Call someone for help? But then the voice came again, a little louder this time, saying she was injured.
"What happened? Do you know?" Isa asked. The darkness of the alleyway made her hesitant to step in to find her.
"I'm bleeding-I don't know how to stop it. It's been like this for at least ten minutes." Isa took a step forward. Then stopped. Decisions conflicted in her mind.
She's injured.
Isa ran into the dark lane. "Where are you?" She called out.
No answer.
"Hey, are you alright?" She tried again.
No answer.
Fear slowly crept up Isa. Was she just imagining the voice? But she was sure she heard it. Someone walked up behind her. She clenched her fists, wided eyed. She began to tremble. No words came out of her mouth, not even a cry for help.
"Haven't anyone taught you not to go into alleyways?" A deep voice spoke. He snickered.
"Especially late in the night," a menacing woman's voice added from in front. Isa took a step back, but then took one forwards after hearing the man take a step. She was trapped…
"W-what do you want with me?" Isa's voice broke. Hysterical laughter came from both sides.
"Scared now human? This is what we have to go through."
Ghouls…
"Hunted down everyday. This is our lives. So, what difference will it make if we took your life? You're our only means of survival. Humans…" The woman came into view, the faint lights from the other end of the street illuminating some of her face. Her eyes; red that glowed in the darkness, filled with anger. She suddenly stopped, her eyes widened.
"Hey-not her. Not her!" The woman yelled. It wasn't directed at Isa, but the man behind her. A sharp pain exploded on Isa's leg, making her lose balance. She fell onto her hands, adrenaline pulsing in her veins. She instantly got back on her feet and ran out the alley, violently pushing the man aside. A person waited at the path entrance. He was tall, wearing an overcoat. Isa came into a stop, breaths heavy and jagged. Everything was spinning in her mind, she didn't know what to do next. All she knew was that she was probably going to die.