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Zii reconsidered her cooperation once Luke mentioned taking her to the docks. It was one thing to agree to meet with whoever this was somewhere where other people would be within earshot should she need to call for help or run away, but to be isolated in a deserted area of the city was another thing entirely.

"I agreed to meet with your evil twin or whatever," she said, "but I didn't agree to have you take me halfway across town to someplace where no one could hear me scream. I'm willing to believe that you're just crazy and not a murderer, but you're gonna have to meet me halfway, dude. Let me meet with this 'Wrath' somewhere nearby, or I won't meet with him at all."

Zii wasn't going to allow Luke to take hold of the power in this negotiation. She was calling the shots, and she needed to make sure he understood that.

"Look, there's an alley behind this place," she said. "It's isolated enough that nobody will interrupt our conversation, but not so much that you're gonna get away with murder easily. I'll speak to you out there, but I'm not traveling any further than that."

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"Lead the way," Zii said, simply, motioning toward the door. Even though she was fairly certain he didn't have any intention of hurting her, she still wasn't willing to turn her back on Luke just yet. It was crazy of her to follow this stranger into an alley--and crazier still that she didn't feel too threatened to do so--but, for some reason, she felt as though Luke was no threat to her, as though she were much stronger than he could ever be.

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Zii followed Luke at a distance, making sure that the gap between them was never too small for her comfort. She felt uneasy as they went into the alley. What the hell was she thinking, agreeing to this? Had she gone completely insane?

Zii gulped as a change overtook Luke. The way his eyes pierced her sent shivers up her spine, and she knew she wasn't looking at Luke anymore. She wanted to run...almost. Something was keeping her here. Something was stirring deep within her. Something wanted to make its presence known.

"So you're...Wrath," she said, the words coming out slowly, shakily, as she tried to keep up her calm facade.

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Wrath smirked, he could tell the girl was afraid, of course, she'd have to be insane or already aware of what she was to not feel some sort of fear at the sound of his voice. Wrath breathed in deep, the morning air was not a familiar smell to him, he was usually either locked up or human from dawn until dusk.

"Yes, I am Wrath." He said in a deeper voice than seemed possible to be created by the vocal cords of the human host that was speaking. He looked her over, as if looking through her, there was no mistake, she was better than any mere mortal he could recruit.

"Tell me, child," He said as he began to pace around, closer to her, "Have you ever felt...different? Like you just don't belong with any of these worthless mortal beings?" He said, perfectly aware that he currently sounded like your average suicide cult leader, but if she was truly what he thought she was, she would not flee, if not, she would likely be killed.

Anthony Grunted and terminated the bluetooth and dropped it onto the gravel of the roof rather carelessly. He then produced a pad of paper and a pen from his pocket and opened it up to a page where he had been keeping notes on Sentinel and scribbled down a couple of lines: Only works at night...Unreliable?... Not Committed/ dedicated?

He tapped the pen on the spiral top of the note pad before closing it after some thought and turning to descend the fire escape that had brought him up here. He couldn't quite put his finger on why he knew something bad was happening at the park since he hadn't been warned by any ghosts. Nor had he had a vision. In fact all that he had gotten was what seemed to be radio broadcasting in his own head of events that were about to transpire. As he got to the edge of the building he saw that there were the woman and young man from the coffee shop down in the alley way, "Crud." Anthony's abilities to turn invisible were not so great in direct daylight.

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"I..." Zii hesitated, Wrath's speech making her nervous. She didn't want to look like she was losing her grip on the situation, but it was difficult to hide.

"It's just a genetic mutation," she said, though it lacked conviction, like an explanation she had rehearsed but never fully believed, "unusual, but it doesn't make me 'the one'."

She tried to stand her ground, to not look like she was buying into what Wrath was telling her. She knew he was taking control, but she was unwilling to give it to him. Reluctantly, though, she looked up at him and, with something close to desperation in those red eyes, she asked:

"So what exactly is this 'purpose'?"

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"I," Zii began, her arms crossed and a look of incredulity on her face, "can't believe I wasted my time."

"I don't know what's in the water in this stupid city," she said, "but you can't throw a rock in the damn place without hitting a super. Why in the world did I think you were any different?"

"Look, I don't care what your super power is or what kind of botched experiment gave it to you," she said, turning to leave. "I'm not joining your little super cult...no matter how many cliches you spout at me."

Zii began to walk out of the alley, her hand drifting to the pocket on her bag in case Wrath tried to stop her.

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Zii took a few more steps, not looking back though she knew that it was unlikely that Wrath would let her to quietly. But, when he raised his hand as though readying to attack her, Zii stopped dead in her tracks.

"You would dare raise your hand to me, Wrath?" she said. Though her voice was unchanged, it was clear that this was not the Zii Wrath had been speaking to before. "Are you brave, or a fool?"