<div class="floatright"> (http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt357/Niferbelle/futureponytail-1.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Phaedra Leitner</strong></span><br/><strong>Age:</strong>27<br/><strong>Crime:</strong>Attempted murder<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Alley<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Group 2<br/><br/>Once entering the deli Phaedra stayed in motion, looking for anything they might use to do something about the mass murderer's chains. She just smiled to herself as they all argued about whether or not to keep him chained up, knowing that they'd already made the choice when they made the decision to run. As she searched she watched the others, especially the newcomers, trying to get a handle on what she had to work with. Drake had a level head, obviously smart, he was a keeper. Sarah was a little timid but she was useful with a little direction and certainly didn't seem the sort to cause them any problems. Tom was, well, a loutish fuck but they needed his brute strength for now and could also be counted on to do some things maybe the others, herself included, didn't have the stomach for.<br/><br/>That left the platinum blond, who seemed tough enough but clearly had no intention to look out for anybody but herself. That, of course, made perfect sense and Phaedra wouldn't hold it against her but it also meant she couldn't be counted on for shit and that she could maybe be kind of a loose cannon. That left the pretty brunette, Natalie, who was confessing her own screwed up past and yet seemed entirely too spineless to be good for much of anything. She probably wouldn't be able to catch up when they got on the move again anyway. It was then the voices kicked in again and Phaedra's brow furrowed as she once again turned her gaze to each of her current companions in turn but when Phaedra was in this state of mind, she didn't let anybody tell her what to do, not even mysterious voices and she'd already decided what she thought they should do and that was stick together.<br/><br/>"Relax, sweetheart," she said to Natalie as the girl began to panic, perhaps thinking they were all going to turn on her as the arsonist. "Nobody thinks you started the fire. Folks, listen, I'm not sure how much any of us should trust the other, getting back to the big guy's chains here, but for now we're in it together and I think it's in everybody's best interest if he's more mobile, yeah? Some of you might be thinking about ditching the rest of us, and that's your choice, but we have a hell of a better chance figuring all this out together. That's what I think anyway. It's like the only way the gazelle survives is to stay with the herd, they lose that, and it's hello cheetah bait."<br/><br/>She hadn't really<em>meant</em>it when she said nobody suspected Natalie. Other than the blond, the rest of them had all been in the library together so they could vouch for each other a little. The two new girls were the more likely suspects as far as Phaedra was concerned but she wasn't worried about that right now, it was most important just to stay one step ahead of the cops.