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WHO: Alice Shaw, Noah Bennet, Angela Petrelli, and Noah Gray
WHAT: Arriving in Colligo.
WHEN: Not long after this.
WHERE: The Grand Library
RATING: TBD
STATUS: In Progress
NOTES: As usual, this is pretty tl;dr. However, the main thing to be aware of is that, as per Alice's ability, it is now storming something fierce.

For three years, Alice had avoided anything even remotely resembling civilization. No people, no towns, no cars, nothing. She stayed in, and as close to, her bunker as much as was possible and only ventured out for food and various other supplies, or when the cabin fever became too much to bear. Even then, she always traveled under a cloud of sand or thunderstorms. Safely cocooned within an ability that had cost so many lives before, secure in the knowledge that as long as she remained in Coyote Sands she would be safe from the world and the world would also be safe from her.

It never occurred to her that Angela was coming back for her. She assumed her sister was dead by this point. Oh, granted, she held out the faint hope that she had survived. Angela's prophetic dreams might have forewarned her and Alice certainly hoped that was the case. However the more time that passed, the more convinced she became that her sister was as dead as their parents. It was a sorrowful thought and, on the nights when it became too much to bear, the local weather always reported random thunderstorms that raged across the barren wasteland of the desert.

Still, for all of the sorrow that came with her new life, Alice did have moments of happiness. Peace. Tranquility. She could change the blistering heat into snow and could make it rain when her water supply ran low. She could stay up as late as she wanted and sleep all day if she so chose, and while she knew that eventually her lack of education would catch up with her, she was still grateful enough not to have to go to school daily that the thought of such things didn't weigh her down.

Yes, her life was relatively happy... and then it all changed.

She went to sleep in her bunker. She woke up somewhere else entirely. Books upon books surrounded her but she didn't see a single one that had any words. Nor did she see the guards until they had whisked her off of her feet. She shrieked, she kicked, she felt panic swell within her, but the calm interior of the library never changed to reflect those emotions. In fact, she had started to wonder if they had done something to make her ability go away forever. Until the doors opened and revealed outside.

The skies were already turning gray and streaks of lightning were slicing their way across the dark, thick clouds that were heavy with rain. Thunder rumbled ominously in the distance and made a loud clap nearby as the girl was unceremoniously dumped on the ground. She made a slight "oomph" sound before scrambling away from the guards. A device was tossed at her when she spun back toward them, the vicious skyline behind her painting a deadly picture of a girl on the verge of losing complete control.

Alice caught the unknown thing without thinking but didn't take her gaze away from the guards. Instead she willed the anger and fear forward and watched as two bolts of lightning seemed to come from nowhere and head toward the two retreating figures. They fell short, however, and the guards were inside the library with the door closed before Alice could comprehend the fact that she'd missed. Only, she never missed.

Blinking, the girl felt her anger melt away as uncertainty washed over her. "Oh," she breathed out loud, glancing down at the eletronic something in her hands. "Oh... my. I can't be here." She looked back to the doors, eyes wide in absolute fright. "Please!" she called out, rushing to them and banging upon them with her empty fist. "I have to go back. It isn't safe! I must go back!"

There was no answer, though, and something told her there wouldn't be one anytime soon. So without a clue as to where she was, or how she'd come to be there, or how to return to the only place in the world where she still felt safe, the girl slowly turned away from the door and slid down to the ground. Her knees went to her chest and she hugged them tightly.

Within seconds, her own tears were mirrored by the rain that had begun to fall from the skies above.