"I'm not trying to listen to anything. I know what's in there already. I just have to get it ouHO CRAP!" Alex said as the giant shadow squirrel snaked its way up the pole. She slipped, losing her footing on the pole and slipping out of her harness. She feel for one agonizingly long second before the rope looped through her belt snagged on one of the metal footholds at the top of the pole, leaving her swinging upside down in the breeze as her tools slipped out of her belt and clattered to the ground below. 

Not the first time this had happened, but it was the least embarrassing. Last time she had been wearing a skirt. 

She saw the shadow streak back down down to face some new person that had wandered in, and wondered briefly if this pole was some sort of popular make out spot for circus freaks and monsters. It wouldn't be surprising. Shadow boy said he wasn't going to hurt the girl, but seeing as he'd already threatened to eat her for the crime of trying to render a simple public service, she wasn't inclined to believe that. Especially when he was calling up horrible shadow demons. She reached into the pants pocket of the brown workmens uniform she'd donned as a clever disguise. Out came a pale blue flip-phone.

She flipped it open, reveling the numbers had been replaced with strange, glowing symbols. Quickly she punched in a combination of them while he advanced on the unfortunate interloper, flipped the phone around so the speakers faced his, and hit the CAST button. The phone sparked with energy for a moment, then a melodious bass hum filled the air as it spat up a wave of concentrated sound three times the size of the speakers that descended directly on the shadow boy like a tidal wave.