Augie initially thought she'd reached a park as she exited the shadow of an alley, but a looming stone building sitting at the far side of the green space made it pretty clear she was looking at a lawn. The building stood out, as opposed to another miscellaneous skyscraper, so Augie knew that whatever she had just passed was something the Gamemakers wanted the tributes to interact with. It made her nervous, but so far no buildings she'd seen had been dangerous in and of themselves - it was just certain elements. A guard cat-mutt or a freezer that locked from the outside. And Augie wouldn't mind a place to rest away from prying eyes - at least, prying eyes that weren't the cameras. Somehow, she'd almost forgotten the cameras.
Augie had to stop to catch her breath twice going up the far too many steps to the building't entrance, but when she got to the top, the doors were unlocked. The lobby inside was empty, just an empty desk and a metal detector. She needed to go through it to get any further into the building, and she didn't exactly feel hidden in the open lobby right by the door. She knew the drill from work - bag and shoes go around the side, she goes through the electronic frame. Easy peasy.
As Augie stepped through, she was thrown to her knees by the loudest noise she had heard in a very long time. An alarm. She'd set off an alarm. She scanned her body trying to figure out what could have possibly set it off - was it the wristband that tracked her vitals? Was there somehow a bobby pin in her hair left from her interview? No, there was no time to think about it. She had to move. Now.
But the further she stepped into the hallway the louder the alarm got. She tried to endure but when the sound got overwhelming, Augie changed tactics. She tried exiting back out the metal detector but that didn't work either, and the alarm was still blaring. There was no button when she checked the desk. The only way to go now was back out the doors, where every tribute in the Arena now knew someone was inside. Augie couldn't - there were too many steps and she would be too exposed, especially in her black suit against all the bright posters.
No, Augie had to wait it out. The alarm would have to stop sounding eventually, right? Augie hastily put her shoes back on, grabbed her bag, and threw herself under the desk. It was the obvious hiding spot, yes, but it was the only hiding spot. The noise was too much and she couldn't think straight. Augie was out of options.
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