InsaneJournal

WHO: Parker, Claude Rains, and Noah Bennet
WHAT: Exploring Colligo and accidentally robbing somebody.
WHEN: Early evening
WHERE: One of the many shopping districts.
RATING: TBD
STATUS: In Progress

Although Parker had no proof to go on, she was pretty sure that she was one of the few who had actually managed to out-last the knight-shaped guards. Fifteen times being locked up in that cell below the library and they had finally given up. She'd been released, with the PDA, and was although they hadn't spoken she was pretty sure they most definitely didn't want her darkening their doorstep again. Which, to be fair, Parker had zero intention of doing... unless they made her.

So far, they hadn't. She'd gotten her hundred dollars, gotten her room, and had spent most of her time simply observing the comings and goings around her. She hadn't spoken to too many people - which was just fine with her, really - and had come to the quick conclusion that she was the only one out of her team that had made it here so far. That saddened her more than she was really willing to admit so she hadn't thought about it too much. Instead she'd gone about figuring out if there was any way to leave the city that had no escape.

A week or so later, and she had her answer. A resounding (and extremely annoying) no.

Being stuck in a place at all just went against Parker's natural order of things. She was the best thief in the world. She escaped from everything. Yet she was stuck in this place with all of the other captives and, as best she could tell, there was simply no way out.

It was after this realization that Parker had taken to exploring. She'd already gotten a fairly decent layout of the area around the housing complex. Now she was exploring further - to the dreaded shopping district. Not that Parker minded shopping. She enjoyed it well enough. Especially the five-fingered discount kind. But that also meant running a risk of bumping into people who weren't from Colligo. Which meant they had a brain. Which meant they'd want to have a conversation.

And that was something Parker did not enjoy at all.

Still, she wasn't going to let that deter her. There had to be somebody, or something, that offered a few more answers and she was determined to find it. And after the first set of shops hadn't offered much beyond things she didn't want and brain-dead employees, she'd moved on to the next. And the next.

She was well on her third night of exploring the shops, and making her way between a book store and some sort of boutique that she was sure Sophie would just love but ranked up there with torture for her, when she made her first contact with someone who wasn't a townie. Shoulders brushed, enough that she bristled from the touch, and before she knew it Parker was stepping away from the encounter with a PDA that wasn't her own and a small stack of bills that also didn't belong to her.

It was nearly a half of a block before she realized she'd even pocketed the things. By then, all she could do was go still, glance slowly over her shoulder, and begin to frantically search the crowd for whoever she had picked the items from. Normally she wouldn't have done that much. She was a thief. She wasn't supposed to give the things she stole back. But she hadn't meant to steal them and she certainly didn't want to make any enemies this early on in the game. So she continued to search for whoever her accidental victim had been.

Finally spotting someone she was pretty sure didn't fit into the whole 'completely braindead and from here' category, she drew in a breath and approached them with a simple tap on the shoulder from behind.

"Excuse me. I, um, think you dropped these."