I stayed quiet, keeping my attention on their group.
Bottle man looked me over, then spoke in a low voice, “Tom, was it? Would you do the honors and deal with this amateur horror show?”
Wait, I thought you said he was your son? Or was that one of the other guys saying that? These skinheads are blending together a bit.
The teenage boy, turned the handgun my way, pointed at chest level. He smirked and grinned, “My pleasure.”
The scene with Bakuda and her minions hadn’t been so different. Only difference was, Tom didn’t hesitate a second when it came to pulling the trigger.
Welp. Taylor’s dead, see ya next chapter as Enoby from “Interlude 2″ takes over as the main character.
So… let’s see. How could this be resolved without Taylor getting shot? My current best bet is on Regent having just shown up and caused Tom to flinch.
The sheer force of the gunshot left me reeling, and it hadn’t even hit me.
I had dropped to a crouch as I stepped outside, leaving most of the bugs where they were above me. Some had fallen down, but the overall structure had remained more or less stable, each of the bugs gripping one another and spreading out enough to fill in the gap of the vacated head and chest area.
Oh hey, the shadow trick! She did say she needed to remember that after Grue did it in Shell. 😀
From what my bugs had experienced, I knew the shot had passed only inches above my head, around the center of my chest. The swarm down where I crouched was denser, to support the structure above them, so I couldn’t see through them as easily. I could only wait with my breath held, hope that the bugs offered me enough cover to hide my real self.
So now this humanoid swarm of bugs that walked out the door will look immune – practically unaffected, even – to “the great equalizer”. That’s a massive bonus to intimidation right there!
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