"Want t'bet it won't be long enough?" Atton pauses, thinking. "Coats, maybe? If we tie all our coats, scarves, any other long pieces of clothing that we don't desperately need, and tie them to a rod or two, we could use those as a long, not especially secure rope. We can use the string to tie them?"

Atton is not particularly enamoured this plan, but he thinks it'll work. So long as the makeshift rope doesn't just fall apart.