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She was flying. It was what she had always dreamed of.
The sun was on her face, and she basked in it, tilting herself one way and another to get the most of it. She was strangely cold, flying up here above the clouds. But it was worth it to fly like this, reading the air currents, shaping the clouds with her passage.
The clouds cleared and she found herself flying above a city. She swooped closer, seeing her reflection in the mirrored windows of skyscrapers. People down below gasped and pointed up to her. She saw her mother and father, Riley and Michael, all the experiments, and - who was that at the back?
She swooped closer for a look-
Brown eyes met brown.
It was her.
Nancy's stomach dropped. Her body followed.
Oh yeah, she thought as she plunged towards the concrete. That's right.
I can't fly...

"Nancy!"
The albatross girl started awake, clawing at the air in the last remnants of her dream. She glanced around blearily for the person that had called her name.
It was Simon, the salamander. He puffed up to her cage and stopped in front of the door, fumbling with something. Water dripped off the ends of his hair and pooled on the floor.
Wait-
"Simon?" Nancy asked, coming to the front of her cage and grasping its bars. "What are you doing here? How did you get out of your cage?"
"We're escaping," he told her, working at - no, unlocking - her cage. "Yata let me out. He took out the security cameras. There's a plan with sleeping gas and Dumpsters and warehouses and - dammit!"
The keys dropped from Simon's fumbling hands. He cursed and scrabbled on the floor for them, obviously agitated, but stilled when Nancy put her hand on his.
"It'll be alright," she told him softly. Her eyes shone with excitement and hope. "We're going to get out. That's all that matters."
Simon looked back, pained, the certainty of recapture clear on his face. "And what if we don't?" he whispered.
They stayed there for a few seconds.
Footsteps echoed down the long hallway. Simon looked up, his eyes wide. "A guard?!" he asked quietly, near panic.
Nancy got up. "No, it's probably a scientist," she whispered back. "A lot of them work late on this floor." As she spoke, she moved back to her cot, picking up her blanket and arranging it in the shape of a sleeping body. "Hurry up with those keys!" she hissed at Simon.
The boy jumped. "Right. Keys," he muttered, grabbing them off the floor and finally inserting them into the lock. "Here, it's open," he told her. "Hurry up!"
"I'm coming," she replied, and left her cage without a backward glance. Nancy closed the door behind her. "Hopefully, that'll fool any guard on the rounds," she told Simon. "Let's get to the others!"
Grabbing his hand, she led him to the stairs. Simon's hand felt cool and slimy in hers. She'd hoped to encourage him to escape with her touch. But Simon followed slowly, reluctantly. He was still convinced they would fail.

((Yeah, Nancy=optimist, Simon=pessimist. I hoped to develop their characters a little more in this post. It's much easier to have a conversation between your own characters!))

((Mitchales? its Michael lol :3 ))

Michael looked at him."Just two..." Michael was still kinda zoned out."Hide those for right now they normally come in late to shut the lights off in here... "
He said.

((note to everyone/ And Riley
Riley You Start The whole get away thing and all mmk?))

Michael nodded."Just Make sure its After Riley says it's time
we'll give it a minute or two and then go...And seeing as your putting the sleeping gas in the vents we can't breath any in....""

Riley paced back and forth. This was driving her insane. She had to focus. If only everyone would stop talking, she would be able to hear the thump. The guard had to be falling asleep anytime soon. "Come on." She whispered to herself. "Fall asleep already." She knew the old guard was there. It was just a matter of time and patience. Something which Riley seemed to be lacking at the moment.

THUD

Riley stopped. That was it. The guard was fully asleep. Now they could escape. "It's time." She smiled at the others. With much anticipation, Riley reached in her pocket and got the keys that still remained in her pocket. Carefully, she unlocked her cage. And then the others. Freedom was so close now more than ever. Now she could see her brother. Her heart raced as she thought of him. It had been many years since she had seen him. Now it would only be a matter of hours.

((*gasp* OMG that was unpleasant. D: Our power was out for almost 48 hours. Sorry for the lack of posts.))

Nancy skidded around the corner, dragging Simon with her, to find Riley and Yata already out of their cages and the rest of the cages unlocked. "Wonderful!" she exclaimed in a stage whisper. "Is everything ready, then? Who's got the supplies?"

he gave a half smile then said, "the trees. we could use them, if we could run fast enough and jump we could land on the trees and escape, but lets keep that as a last resourt. pickeong up two bottle of sleeping gas he set them down close to mitchael then went into his cage and brought out his now dry clothes he sets them down next to his tank then walks over to a vent. removeing it hoods he stand up and says, "Get out as fast as you possibly can. once your on the roof, i'll put the gas into the vent and sprint for it it'll give us more time to escape. the guards will be out cold for a long while if sirens go off. the proplem is if any one's cuaght in the gas they'll fall asleep too so make sure your not in the building when the gas starts to circulate."

((Don't know about the others, but I have work from 5 PM to midnight tonight, so I can't post till tomorrow... Sorry.))