Snippet #1376965

-Jostica-

New York.

New York, New Yo~rk!

It sure was something. Something she wasn’t sure she liked, but hoped she would. For the past four months she’d been trying to catch up to her brother, but he just moved around too fast. He’d be somewhere else before she could get halfway there. This became especially frustrating when it was a cross country trip.

She finally decided it’d be more efficient to sit and wait for him to come to where she was. But where to wait? She’d been tracking him for years, it was the first spell she’d learned, and after thinking back she realized there was one place he kept coming back to.

New York.

She guessed it was because of how easy it was to loose yourself there. If you needed to hide, where could you find a better place than in one of the largest cities in the world?

Staking out the city for his eventual return would also be easier on the finances, since she could actually get a steady job instead of relying on her savings and what her parents were willing to give her.

Still, New York was expensive and she was going to need to get a handle on her expenses. Her first stop? Her bank.

* * *

The plus side to needing to see one of the people at a desk, was that you got to sit. The negative was that it was much harder to judge how long you’d be waiting.

So she sat, and waited, and debated whether or not to scratch a softening spell into the heavy oak chairs.

She started to nod off when someone tapped her on the shoulder, asking if she needed to speak with someone. Her answer was interrupted by gunfire and screams.

Five men in cheap suits, ski masks, and carrying automatic weapons marched into the center of the bank demanding everyone to get on the floor.

Jostica and the woman from the bank grabbed each other and dove behind one of the desks. The woman was letting loose a stream of terrified expletives as she groped blindly over the top of the desk for a phone as Jostica’s training kicked in and she whispered a basic “look away” spell before she knew what she was doing.