Hawks is just chilling with a soda when he wanders into the huge department store. There's something kind of eerie about this, the emptiness of it. There's sale signs, so where the hell is everyone? He wonders if people living here just get sick of this. What kind of island is this? It's definitely suspicious.

He gets to the end of the store near the exit that leads outside and nearly drops his soda at the sight of all those people with their freaky eyes.

"That is absolutely not normal," he says aloud to no one in particular.

Luckily for Hawks, his eyesight is excellent, so he doesn't have to get all the way up to the glass to see what's happening. That gives him just enough of a head start when they rush in to run the other way. He really only runs a few steps before his wings do the rest of the work. Hawks is very, very fast so anyone who encounters him may just barely see him whizzing by.

He lands near the entrance that leads into the mall, but that's also a dead end.

"Shit," he says. He takes off again before anyone can actually grab him and stays there, hovering above the shoppers. He's out of reach, but that doesn't mean there's a way out.

Find him at any point along this journey. Maybe he dropped his soda and you look up to see him.

Alternately, he might spy someone else about to get trampled. "Hey, watch out down there," he calls out.

[ Let me know if you'd like Hawks to rescue your character from the stampeding shoppers. ]

After that absolute bullshit with the shoppers, Hawks is pretty wary of going anywhere else. He sees the escalators, but nah, he's not about that. He's not going down there unless/until he has to.

Fortunately for some poor soul, Hawks checks his ScryWatch pretty often. So he sees the distress call that someone posts.

you got stuck in a CAR?
ok hold on I'll come get you out

So much for avoiding the escalators. He grits his teeth and goes down. At the bottom, he has a run in with an employee who hands him a set of keys. They have no answers to anything, though, which is pretty useless.

He flies through the parking lot, clicking the keys. He can see pretty far away, so he might see someone struggling in a car and zip over to them, clicking the keys he has and hoping for the best.

[ something else you'd like? Mannequin run in? Just a random encounter in a weird store? I'm game! Throw something at me here or find me on plurk at boywonder for plots/custom starters! ]