Max runs.

Max shook her head trying to shake the fog from her head as she tried to get her bearings. They hadn’t taken her far from where the roadblock had been but she wasn’t sure where exactly she was. There were a number of warehouses and from the smell of the air they were somewhat close to the ocean.

She had little time to think or formulate a plan before she heard to heavy footsteps of the two cops.

"Dammit," she muttered to herself giving a glance back towards the steel door she had just left, then down to her naked legs and bare feet, the mud from the ground squeezing up between her toes. She had no time.

She ran, cutting into an alley just as she heard the door swing open and headed south towards more densely populated parks of Seattle. The grimy floor made it hard for her to run. Usually she wouldn’t have a problem, her sense of balance was cat-like, but the **** slurred her senses. “Fuck!” she gasped as she slipped as she tried to cut a corner and with a grunt she hit the floor. Muddy water splashed about as she landed in a small puddle. “Fuck!” she swore again as she struggled to get to her feet. She looked down herself and saw that the cold water had soaked through her flimsy, white t-shirt, revealing her braless breasts to the world, her nipples standing like little pebbles in the cool night’s air.

“You can’t run or hide!” she heard one of the cops call out slightly out of breathe.

She could hear them behind her, and swore at her mud caked feet. The thin layer of mud and muck covering much of the back alley made it difficult for her to run while leaving obvious means to track her.

Max stopped at an intersection, a larger street, and scanned the street signs

9th street. She read then bit her lip, then looked back behind her to see two beams of light bobbing up and down.

Any further was Niners’ territory, one of the larger gangs in Seattle; they called nearly twenty city blocks home, from 9th street all way down to the old arena. Cops knew better to enter their turf unprepared and without back up, she doubted her two new friends would have the balls to follow her but was it worth the risk?