"What the hell..." Ryan's voice trailed off as the limo drove away.
Now, he wasn't a particularly saintly person, and he was by no means what people would call "charitable", but he did try to be a nice guy, and part of being a nice guy, at least in his book, involved not leaving innocent people, particularly attractive women, in alleyways to die after being mugged. And besides, she had been glowing like 10,000 freakin spotlights, there had to have been something interesting going on.
He waved off the departing limo with a mildly disgusted look on his face, then trotted back toward the alley. As he rounded the corner, he saw the girl huddled up on the ground in the middle of what looked like a bombing zone. The buildings around her had been burnt to a crisp.
He ran up to her then knelt down, looking nervously at the various pieces of metal and bricks dangling precariously above them. "Hey, you alright?"