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@emberynus-the-dragonslayer Have at it!! And good going! : ) If it’s okay, Dayton can come and fuss at Jackson and Crecia (she’s good at that).

Dayton crouched in the shadows of the collapsed bridge, watching with eagle eyes. Today, her espionage had lead her to the City Square, to haunt the shadows of the seven councilors of Outopía, who were just now taking seats along the platform.

Forcing a characteristic snort into a fierce sigh, she peered around the column again. Oh, great! There goes the spokesman, standing up to blab! Tensing, she leaned against the bridge column and strained her ears to catch every word.

“Citizens of Outopía,” he began, “we have been living in ruin for years now, and we must confess, we haven’t tried hard enough to change that. We know that you are suffering, but we want to let you know, new developments are being made, ones to secure the future of our city.”

The crowd before them rumbled as people whispered and muttered. Dayton clenched her teeth.

The spokesman held up his hands for silence, “Recently, we have found that a rebellion may be growing in our city, we, as your leaders, promise to hunt down this rebellion before it can grow and flower, and we plan to begin that now.”

The crowd grumbled and Dayton thought Great. Just great. How responsible and noble!

The crowd thinned out, little by little leaving to return to their lives. What lives they have!! Lives spent in picking through trash and surviving being looted by night and slighted by day. 

“Get that boy!

Dayton’s gaze snapped onto a group of councilors, who jumped down from their platform and went running across the square. Seem to be chasing someone that was in the crowd. What a wonderful way to show how much better they’ll make things and ‘hunt down this rebellion before it can grow and flower’; chasing their citizens!

Biting down another snort, she waited until crowd had completely dispersed. Being a spy meant keeping people from seeing you and knowing you, whether you were spying on them or not. Which, really, I spy on everyone all of the time! Flipping her hood over her head, she rose and hugged the supports of the bridge, easing from shadow to shadow, until she reached another crumbly structure.

Dropping down, she crawled across the ground behind the wreckage. So, they think they have us all figured out, huh?

She snorted as she rose to her feet and skirted a collapsed building to stride in the shadows of the next alley. Well, those spineless fools are gonna find out that, though we may appear to be sparrows, we’ll attack like Peregrine falcons!!

Stooping under a half-fallen skeleton of a lamppost, she turned onto another street. The others at the meeting tonight will get a full report of this! She resolved.

Her next turn brought her onto the scene of two starving boys sorting through garbage ahead. How could any government be so insane as to try to continue with their city in such a state??!! Just wait until we unleash ourselves!

As she approached the spot where they knelt, one of them turned his head and gazed at her. His sky blue eyes begged for something. Anything. A tear rolled down his cheek.

Throwing her head up and setting her jaw, she forced herself to stride past them. His pleading eyes burned through the back of her head and into her memory. “In a city of heartlessness and poverty,” she muttered, “What else can you do? I have nothing to give them . . .right now anyway.But I won’t forget you.You remind me of-”

She slammed her teeth shut. Stop it! Not time for sentimentality! 

Her eye caught moment in the alley next to her. Turned her head slightly, she spotted two forms coming down the alley. Jackson. And a girl I don’t know! What is he doing?!

Pressing herself into a shadow, she watched them approach, her eyes flashing. “I never though I would have to spy on my own allies!” She muttered.

@naiya-dyani Is it alright if  Megyn and Kedori, and Rob and Gerik meet?? I can bring in Megyn now and then when you bring in Gerik, he and Rob can run into each other somehow . . .

@thewirelessblade Where exactly is Nate?