[With some minor alterations to the way the world works/is that have changed in my head in the last year.]

She's been here for three years. She doesn't realize it, but that's how long Parker has been in the city. She doesn't even know she's Parker anymore. In the beginning she was no one, a lost soul like all of the other Intruders to roam the streets of the City. Then she was Ariel the hiding Intruder. Over time she became a Native, and the newest recruit to the Brigade. That's how the City works after all. You are who it wants you to be.

( .... )