As Audrie got closer, the mechanical banging and shouting got louder. [i][color=#ffcccc]Hostages huh? So she catches people: be on the lookout for traps. While two could normally play that game, one of us is fresh out of traps at the moment; fortunately she blew the element of surprise, but who knows what else she's doing.[/color][/i] Audrie redoubled her usual habit of always lowering her gaze to the ground directly in front of her footfalls. 

[i][color=#ffcccc]As much as the hallways, doors, and furniture in buildings could be booby-trapped in oh so many ways, shit flows down river and some high ground would be really useful.[/color][/i] Having gotten what sounded like pretty close, Audrie stopped and glanced around, fishing through the center pocket of her hoodie for a crumpled-up flu mask she had dyed black, until she found a compromise in the form of the fire escape on one of those mixed buildings that had shops on the ground floor and apartments above, and put on her "backup costume". She climbed not all that carefully, awkwardly jimmying the ladder down and squeezing through in places, with more concern for checking the next flight of stairs and the buildings facing her than the hollow noises her power was dampening. 

With a hop, Audrie ascended to the roof and finally caught sight of it: silvery cables like cobwebs or modern art, holding aloft a helicopter with its rotors shorn off like the wings picked off a fly, and six people. Only one of them didn't look supremely uncomfortable. [i][color=#ffcccc]Primary target acquired. [/color][/i]

Audrie crouched down by the lip of the roof and took stock of her options. [i][color=#ffcccc]Spot's a good vantage point and is harder to sabotage. Getting up through choke points took time, so will any getting down or enemy assault; worse case scenario: just jump. King of the hill still applies. Could search and clear roof of traps, but risks setting them off and losing track of rest of battlefield.[/color][/i] She looked around for other capes, and saw that biblical-looking one from earlier on the street below and a flickering pastel statue on another rooftop. [i][color=#ffcccc]Like moths to a flame. [/color][/i]

All three capes looked like they were waiting for someone else to make the first move, which was fine by Audrie. [i][color=#ffcccc]Probably waiting for the heroes to show up. [/color][/i]Her goal was simply information: see who the major players were, how they acted and interacted, maybe what their powers did --again, too bad she didn't have a scanner on her at the moment. If someone saw through her powered disguise, she'd try to convince them she was harmless or on their side, and then GTFO at the earliest opportunity. 

Audrey settled in to watch the show. [i][color=#ffcccc]I wonder if the Final Guard are dumb enough to try another helicopter? [/color][/i]