6916/The Hazards of Sightseeing in NYC

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The Hazards of Sightseeing in NYC
Date of Scene: 13 July 2021
Location: Grandenetti Cathedral - Chelsea
Synopsis: Ayanna is caught up in a brief but intense intersection as June is being chased by some unknown characters.
Cast of Characters: June Connor, Ayanna Dreyfus




June Connor has posed:
    Remnants of a tropical storm to the south have caused some irregular weather throughout the area this morning, the warm wind from the south to come up with rain aplenty. The storm has passed, but the wind hasn't as the now drying sidewalks are windblown, reminding everyone just how littered the big city is. Magazines, trash, paper cups, and other clutter is flushed out of the alleys and onto the streets. At the Garndenetti Cathedral, a man in a yellow vest combats the litter, picking it up with his little grabby stick, and a nearby vendor tries to keep his New York trinkets and T-shirts from blowing away.

    That doesn't mean the streets are abandoned, not in this city. Tourists who have come for vacation still flock around, taking pictures of the cathedral, and all in all, it seems at the moment like a fairly normal day.

Ayanna Dreyfus has posed:
Yet another person in the crowd, the petite French student explores the city too. Turning around with her back to the cathedral, she struggles a bit with her hair, tyring to make friends with the wind in order to get a nice selfie of herself with the large monumental building in the background. she glances at the cleaner and if he notices her, she offers a polite nod before snapping another selfie and maybe a third as well. Light inside will probably make selfies more challenging.

June Connor has posed:
    Everything was normal. Then came an unexpected arrival. She wears a black Strokes T-shirt. She's no taller than Ayanna, really, a fairly small young woman with shredded blue jeans that expose more of her leg than it covers. Her arms and legs have a pretty large number of tattoos, and her hair is a loud mix of blue and gold stripes on a half shaved head. Yes, lots of piercings.

    The vendor is grabbing onto one of his magazine racks when she comes by in a hurried pace. A quick eye may notices that she's actually injured. Not that most Yorkers would care about such a thing. Her shirt is stained dark red against the black on the left side at her ab, a small hole in it. She doesn't limp, though. A red "I <3 NY" shirt is snagged while the vendor isn't looking, along with a baseball cap. It's fast enough the poor robbed vendor doesn't even know it happened as she whisks by, pulling the hangar off the shirt and tossing it in a nearby trash can. She...pulls off her shirt? It's a sports bra underneath, hardly an indecent exposure, but the action does get a few heads to turn her direction. She's bleeding. Is that a gunshot wound? Holding the new shirt in her teeth, she starts to tie the old one around her waist as a very makeshift bandage.

Ayanna Dreyfus has posed:
Lowering her phone, Ayanna can't help glancing in the same direction people around her seem to stare at just a brief moment ago. She's right on time to see the girl trying to cover something bleeding(?) on her abdomen. As (very) curious as she might be, she frowns and blinks twice, trying hard to look away and mind her own business. What was her business? Oh! Right, the selfie, but, umm, not the best idea to do that with /her/ in the background, someone might take offense or worse. She exhales softly and slips the phone back in the rear pocket of her black jeans, turning to face the entrance of the cathedral and starts walking.

June Connor has posed:
    The baseball cap is clutched in one finger by the back as June pulls the new shirt over her head. It's a guy's shirt, and fits a bit large on her, but it doesn't seem to be a factor as she makes her way to the cathedral door right behind Ayanna, tossing the hat backward over her hair and tucking it inside.
    She doesn't seem to have much sense of personal space as she reaches the door behind Ayanna, reaching out to grab her in an attempt to shove her forcefully into the cathedral doors. Guess she's in a hurry.

Ayanna Dreyfus has posed:
Ayanna Dreyfus wan not expecting to see a hand reaching for the door around her, even less to get shoved to the point she nearly loses her balance (thank goodness she's wearing flats) and just barely avoids ending sprawled on the cathedral's floor. As soon as she does regain her balance, she turns back with a frown to see who's so rude as to grab and push her so briskly!

June Connor has posed:
    Surprise, it's that same girl. "Shut up and do what I say," she orders. Very rude. She continues the manhandling, rushing her backward past the vigil candles and toward a corner, where she spins her around so that she puts herself in a corner, with Ayanna's back to the door. She pulls her close...REALLY close so that their noses almost touch. Far too intimate a range for a complete stranger. June's eyes aren't on Ayanna at all, though. She has an intent stare just past her face at the door behind her. June smells like marijuana and...she might not have showered today.

Ayanna Dreyfus has posed:
Ayanna Dreyfus is caught completely offguard, being nearly dragged away by the wounded girl and pulled so close it seemed like she's about to pretend kiss her like in the corny action movies. It takes her less than a second to thank whatever deity governs the place that the girl didn't. That stench, oh dear lord, Ayanna nearly vomits a little in her mouth, she really does her best not to show she almost had her gag reflex kicking in, sensitive nose maybe. Still, she's stuck there, grabbed, trying not to pant so she doesn't have to inhale more of the offensive smell, heart racing as she realizes someone, probably hostile might be right behind her.

June Connor has posed:
    Someone enters behind, two men in suits, one of them with a gun out. "Just...stay still," June says, a bit of authority in her voice. June watches as they glance their direction, and she looks back at Ayanna in the eyes. "So I get this is awkward," she says, moving her own head so her face is blocked from view. "And I'm not actually sorry, you know how it is, gotta stay alive." The men continue on into the cathedral, and June releases Ayanna. "Sorry about that," she says, walking carefully toward the second set of doors that the men went through so she can peek after them.

Ayanna Dreyfus has posed:
Ayanna Dreyfus stays where she was left at, still... digesting. She's trembling a little now that she saw the armed men, preferring not to imagine what they might do if they saw her covering for that girl. A slow blink and an exhale, trying to banish morbid thoughts from her mind. Maybe it would be best to visit this cathedral another time. Those men are inside and that girl isn't so keen on making herself scarce, so Ayanna decides to remove herself from the equation, the quicker the better and she turns away in a hurry, heading for the entrance through which she was shoved only a long moment ago.

June Connor has posed:
    Whatever it was all about, the strange smelly woman doesn't seem interested in keeping Ayanna there. She's busy on to the next thing...following the men who were chasing her a moment ago. Not what most people do when they get chased by people with guns, but then, she doesn't exactly behave like most people to begin with.