Since jumping's out of the question...

[whosalicewhite]

Who| Parker and ANYONE AND EVERYONE (Who lives in the training centre)
What| Up on the rooftop, Parker's paused
Where| Rooftop
When| Night before the lockdown
Warnings/Notes| Will add if needed.

Parker's standing on the ledge: well, as close to the ledge as she can due to that stupid force field. Likely, as others did before her, she's considering a way down. No, Parker isn't suicidal, but more scaling off / jumping off / flying off buildings is something of a specialty for her.

She's in deep concentration. It doesn't mean she won't know when someone's coming up on her, but still, doing the mental calculations as to what would be needed if she could get around the force field, is important business.

Comments

[whosalicewhite]

Parker is definitely one of those adrenaline junkies, and for all she can be silly, or difficult to understand, when presented with such clear information --

"Anyone worked out the algorithm yet? Tested? What of its projection points? That can't be on the lower levels. Got to be in the wall."

[nightlightheart]

"No tests yet. Still unidentified security measures. Not worth the risk. Projections are beneath the field from here. Might be able to get to them from the 11th floor. Haven't tried," he shrugs. Hasn't really liked anyone from District 11 enough to try.

"You new here?"

He hasn't seen her. Or if he has, she didn't look like this. Inside the arena, everyone looks a bit different. And he really only looks at the faces in the sky long enough to be sure he doesn't know them. If he has seen her before, he never noticed until now.

[whosalicewhite]

"I'm on 9. Could go up." Districts mean nothing to her. Parker's never had a hometown to speak of, and feels no loyalty toward any particularly place.

No, wherever her people are, she's fine. Eliot's here but not on her floor. She should visit. What's the worst that can happen?

"New enough." She means, new enough she hasn't found a way to escape. There's never been a prison that can hold her. She's not going to give up that perfect record.

[nightlightheart]

"Could. So long as no one sees you. That's the biggest problem. They'll cut your tongue out if they thing you're up to no good. Well... that is of course if you go up there personally. I'm thinking of a different approach. Just need to find the right parts first." He's rambling more to himself than really to her at this point. It goes without saying, he'd be miserable without his tongue. How else could he ramble at strangers?

"Sorry for your loss then," he jokes. What she's lost, Tony has no idea. But she's lost something. Of that, he has no doubt. Whether it's was her last time in the arenas, or the the home she's left behind,

[whosalicewhite]

"Don't really need my tongue to climb." She clicks the top of her mouth with said tongue. "But what parts?"

For the record, she is genuinely considering the idea.

"I found Eliot." She shrugs. Sure, the rest of her people aren't here, but at least there's one. It's enough to keep her grounded.

[nightlightheart]

"I'd kill a man for a soldering iron, actually," he says humorously, if not in bad taste.

It takes him a moment to catch her meaning. "He was lost?" he says, before he realizes she means that she must have known him before either of them had come here. Doesn't correct himself though. Kind of wants to hear how she'll react.

[whosalicewhite]

"Don't think they offer that." She didn't get the joke.

"He's never lost. He was here when I got here."

[nightlightheart]

"Yeah, no one seems too keen on letting me have one. It's like they think I'll cause trouble, or something," he shrugs, with a bit of a grin.

They'd be right, of course.

"So you knew him from before, I take it?" he's pretty sure she did, but he can't just assume.

[whosalicewhite]

"Anything can cause trouble, if you know how to use it." Parker's been thinking of all sorts of everyday things to mess the place up.

"Yup." Nothing else. Eliot is Eliot, which makes him one of the few people she'll openly admit to knowing, and not feel the need to explain it. Unfortunately, that doesn't help in conversation.