Re: Upper West Side: West 81st.
[Before Malibu and glass, and sunshine and Tony she lived in New York. Enough to know the routes of a cab driver, and to lean over and tap the shoulder and say 'not that way, it's longer'. So she can see the park up ahead, the lit-dusk dark of buildings giving way to the shrouded dim of trees and grass and no buildings and Pepper runs that way because behind her is whatever the hell that was and she doesn't plan on asking his name.
Her feet burn, the high heels have been lost in the cab-road-running transition, and Pepper makes the mistake of turning her head and looking back and seeing that coming towards her. Another scream. And it swipes, and then she's eating air, soaring backward, landing heavily on her hip, and there's a splinter-crunch between her hip and the grass that's so the piece of Stark Tech carried around, even switched off. Shit.]