Somewhere in Rio- Wednesday late afternoon/early evening

[fates_jaye]

Jaye could have been having a better vacation. But after having things start talking to her and then a subsequent sleepless night and wandering through a gay ball (that still sounded wrong) to try and find some guy who she was told to follow but lost in a crowd (you'd think with so many feathers there, there'd be one damn fake bird to play hot and cold with), and therefore there'd been another sleepless night because of it.

So as these things tended to happen, she'd gone about her business, only to get sent on another wild goose chase through Rio.

...Wild goose chase was almost an accurate term, too.

Not long from sunset, she found herself at some little warehouse somewhere just outside a shantytown. It seemed to be abandoned, and when she wandered inside, Jaye found herself in a large room filled with shoddy-looking cages all stacked on top of each other that just so happened to be filled with exotic birds.

The message had been Free me. Jaye supposed she was supposed to do just that.

"Okay," she said as she neared the cages. "I'm really hoping you were going to be illegally smuggled out of the country for sales purposes, and I'm not going to be releasing some non-indigenous species out there that kills the ecology of the planet or something. We're not far off from the Mayan end of the world thing, I don't want anyone to say I had a hand in it."

The problem was, with all the stacked cages, she didn't know where to start. They probably wouldn't hold her weight if she climbed them anyway, and she didn't want to die. But if she started at the bottom, there were plenty of things above her. At least she probably couldn't be crushed? Hopefully? She could not die in Rio, she just wasn't. Her disappearance/death would probably get reported on by Nancy Grace and her helmet of hair or something.

So fine, she managed to get one of the cages free from the pile towards the bottom... and watched in horror as everything above it swayed. "No," she said, seeing this going horribly wrong. "Not allowed! You are not allowed!"

The cages above her slowly tipped and crashed to the floor anyway. Nothing bad happened, though. In fact, the cages were made so poorly that once they hit something, they just burst open and birds went flew out of them and towards a handily open window, totally unharmed. Which... was awesome.

That was when Jaye heard something like a door opening back from where she'd come, and she had two options: hide in a room with birds flying around and some guys coming to investigate/fix things/kill her or whatever, or try to get as many as she could free and hope she advanced to the next level could use the birds to distract whoever was coming in.

So if you saw Jaye pushing over cages on the bottom of the stacks so that they broke and the birds went free, that was what she was going to be doing. She pushed over the last one just as she heard someone swear in Portugeuse (she assumed it was swearing, what else would someone say in a situation like this?) and she managed to slip behind some empty boxes after the last of the cages were broken and the birds were freed.

Whoever's warehouse this was, they weren't happy about all the birds escaping, but all Jaye had to do was not move and stay where she was for as long as it took for them to go away, and then she could slip out unnoticed and unkilled.

It would have been a perfect plan if about five minutes later she hadn't realized she really had to go to the bathroom. It was going to be a long evening.


[It's really all willbethenight's fault.]