In the Dark (open)

[jimmylost]

Mel had taken to going on walks with her bag of tools. She wasn't aloud to work anymore, and she was done school. She just wandered thought the endless rows of gray buildings and wondered who was doing her and her brothers' job now. If the lights went out in a factory would everybody just be forced to work in the dark? She missed it, so few people in district three had jobs they actually enjoyed and now she didn't either. She found her feet wandering down a familiar path. She wanted to be up high and if she wasn't aloud up in the rafters of the factories she would find another way. She was standing in front of an old fire escape attached to a squat apartment building.
That would do. She was reaching up toward the ladder that would slide down once she pulled it hard enough when she heard a sound behind her.
"Is anyone there?" she asked.

[lefriend]

Cody-

Cody froze. He had finished his catapult and decided to take a walk. Soon enough, he found a girl, no more than 4 years older than him and kind of short. She wore dark cloths and had a bag slung over her shoulders. Something about the girl had attracted Cody so he started following her. She had walked to the factories and now she was standing at a fire escape. She must have heard him because she called out, "Is anyone there?"

[jason dravek]

i was in the factory remebering thats where my mom collapsed of sickness.

[jason dravek]

then i heard someone say and i sprinted towards it

[jimmylost]

Mel felt herself relax as she realized that the outline she was facing was an none too athletic kid.
"Hello there," she said friendlily "Whacha doing?"

[lefriend]

"I don't know... I... just..." Cody stammered as he realized he was caught.
"My subconscious told me to follow you," Cody embarrassedly said, "my name's Cody."

[jimmylost]

"Really?" she said finally grabbing hold of the fire escape and pulling down the metal ladder with an echoing clang.
She swung up the ladder easily and climbed up to the first floor platform. The climb sent more metal echos through the little ally-way.
"Let's hope your subconscious knows how to climb if it wants to keep following me" She said playfully.
She continued to climb using the outer bars rather then the stairs climbing up three floors easily.

[lefriend]

Cody watched as the girl climbed higher and higher. Then his muscles dtarted to move him. Before he knew it, he was 4 stories off the ground. "We're pretty high." Cody called to the girl who was now 2 stories above him, "Are you should this will hold us?"

[jimmylost]

"Should" she called down "the metal is rusted but the bolts are new"
She didn't stop to see if the boy continued but she guessed that he would. Either way it didn't matter she had a goal, the roof.

[lefriend]

Cody kept climbing. After another couple of stories, the girl reached the roof. Cody was at the last floor when he heard the metal start to creak. He looked at the corner of the fire escape. The metal around the bolts was starting to crumble leaving behind bolts attached to nothing. As fast as he could, Cody hauled himself up onto the roof. "That was close," Cody said to himself but intending for the girl to hear. He looked over and saw the girl standing on the edge of the roof with her arms out, as if she were going to fly like a bird right off the roof.

[jimmylost]

OOC: Isn't that kind of powerplaying. Oddly enough it was pretty close to what I was going to have her do anyway.
This wasn't the tallest building in the district, not by far, it wasn't even the tallest one in the area. It did manage to rise above some of the smog that clung to the district. Mel stood at the edge facing the distant forest trying to catch some of the clean air. She looked down and felt a familiar dizziness course through her. She smiled leaning farther over the edge holding her arms out both for balance and the fun of it.
She heard the boy pull himself onto the roof and let the wind die down before turning toward his voice.