Who: Gabriel Gray, Nicole Sanders When: 11:43am Where: Queens, New York What: Hunting
It was that time of day when the sky and the sunlight was so bright above the city that one could hardly stand to look up at it, and though Gabriel Gray was tempted to keep his sensitive eyes trained on the sidewalk in front of him, other curiosities kept his gaze up and flitting from face to face. The street was packed with people and busy with action, even for the normal lunch crowds in Queens New York, and Sylar had no lack of potential prey as they struggled to pass him and the others on the street with the least amount of physical contact possible. His mind was working overtime, trying to process each body as they passed him and most times only being able to skim the surface of their workings and gears before they were gone again. Everyone in the world was just a little bit broken now and it was hard to learn how to skim over personalities like that, because with too much of them around it was easy for Gabriel's power to become clouded. There were also those people that believed themselves to be more extraordinary than they were, and those were also to be avoided, for fear that Sylar himself might become confused and waste his time pursuing them.
But the streets were proving to be too much for him today and Gabriel was forced to seek a more secluded observation point, were his material wouldn't travel away from him so quickly. At first he tried a little dive bar off one of the major intersections, but a fast scan of the place told him that there was no one of interest in here. He brought a shot from a tray the bartender wasn't paying attention to towards himself and downed it before he left, squinted in the sun again when he emerged from the darkness just in time to see a teenaged boy dash past him in the corner of his peripheral vision. He head snapped around quickly, watching as the kid came to an abrupt stop in a dead end side alley off of Main St. Another group of teenagers came pelting around the corner half a block away and it was easy to connect what they were after, the panicked expression on the single boy's face dramatically increasing to hysteria when he heard the group of them coming. Gabriel stood slightly out of the way, watching silently as he always did, and was glad of his patience with the day when the kid suddenly seemed to shimmer for a moment, and then blended in with the brick wall he was trapped against. When the group of kids came around the corner, all they were left with was the same dead end the boy had faced before them.
It didn't take them long until they lost interest and departed the scene, some annoyed and others seeming not to care in the slightest, but Gabriel remained where he was long afterwards. He knew what he had seen and didn't question it like many others would have, and he was right again when the boy shimmered back into existence, with a new type of frightened expression gracing his face. Before Sylar had the chance to follow him into the alley as well, the kid had merged with the thick Main St. foot traffic and his short stature was quickly lost among the crowd. Gabriel cursed inwardly, his scowl formidable and trained on no one in particular, as he glanced up against and began his search anew.