[The energy is the first problem. The air was thick with it, and Parker is immediately uncomfortable. People are noticing her, and she doesn’t like that. She doesn’t like the ringing in her ears or the way that everything seems to be tilting slightly, or— Okay, calm down Parker. What would Sophie do? Sophie would smile and shake hands and work her way through the crowd before sneaking off somewhere quiet. But Parker doesn’t like shaking hands. People are sweaty. Eliot would probably punch everyone in the face, but she doesn’t really want to do that either.]
Okay, what would Parker do?
[she thought she said that in her head but judging by the several “huhs?” in the pressing crowd around her, she didn’t. She needs to get away from this. She can’t think, not with everyone breathing near her. Finally she sees her opening.]
Um, yeah, okay, I gotta go… save things! Bye!
[She slips through the crowd and it’s not until she emerges seven blocks away on the structurally questionable fire escape of a building with good strategic sight lines that she realizes she snagged some wallets on the way out.]
Whoops.
[she shrugs and then hops down, but thinking about her haul she kiiiiiind of neglects to notice where she’s landing]
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[The energy is the first problem. The air was thick with it, and Parker is immediately uncomfortable. People are noticing her, and she doesn’t like that. She doesn’t like the ringing in her ears or the way that everything seems to be tilting slightly, or— Okay, calm down Parker. What would Sophie do? Sophie would smile and shake hands and work her way through the crowd before sneaking off somewhere quiet. But Parker doesn’t like shaking hands. People are sweaty. Eliot would probably punch everyone in the face, but she doesn’t really want to do that either.]
Okay, what would Parker do?
[she thought she said that in her head but judging by the several “huhs?” in the pressing crowd around her, she didn’t. She needs to get away from this. She can’t think, not with everyone breathing near her. Finally she sees her opening.]
Um, yeah, okay, I gotta go… save things! Bye!
[She slips through the crowd and it’s not until she emerges seven blocks away on the structurally questionable fire escape of a building with good strategic sight lines that she realizes she snagged some wallets on the way out.]
Whoops.
[she shrugs and then hops down, but thinking about her haul she kiiiiiind of neglects to notice where she’s landing]