Zaresh tried to keep his face in his coat as he passed by a group of Magehunters, all of whom seemed on alert at the moment. He guessed they were searching for a mage in the area, and silently cursed. Panicked hunters were often less reasonable, and unreasonable hunters were less likely to leave him alo-
"You there! Sir?"
"Sure enough..." Zaresh sighed. He tried to turn in a way that kept his bandages hidden, but the hunter shined a flashlight right in his face as he approached. Another bad sign. Zaresh had one hand up trying to block the light. "What is it officer?"
The hunter was leering at him already. The bandages never helped these situations. "Now's not the time for your everyday civilian to be out and about you know. More a time for mages to be running around." The hunter was starting to move around Zaresh now. This was going downhill fast.
"Well, I just got he-"
"Where from? Or better yet, where are you going?" the hunter interrupted. "And what's with your face, huh? Got something to hide under there?" More of the hunters nearby had approached, and were surrounding him now. Zaresh was not going to leave peacefully.
He sighed. "I just had to run into the most unreasonable squad in the city, didn't I?" With that he made a wide gesture and ran as the hunters were blown away by a giant blast of wind. He could hear them getting back up after he had gotten a short distance away, and ducked into an alley as they opened fire. By the time they reached the alley, Zaresh had already flown up onto a building and was leaping from rooftop to rooftop eventually stopping on top of a warehouse some distance from them. He was pretty sure they wouldn't find him here.