“So what’s next?” I asked, “I think we should do something to step in, but Brian was saying that he thought we should continue to lay low. Before Purity said her piece, anyways. Not sure if he’s changed his mind.” I gave him a look.
I don’t think he has. Not fully.
“I haven’t,” Brian spoke, loud enough to be picked up by the phone. He dabbed ointment on my ear, making me wince. “Sorry.”
Yeah.
I wasn’t sure if the apology was over his stance in the discussion or the medical care.
Heh. I first read it as the former, but both work. And hey, it could be both.
“According to the news and my, um, inside source,” Lisa spoke, referring to her power, “Purity hasn’t stopped. She’s doing strafing runs across the Docks. She moves too fast for anyone but Dauntless or Velocity to catch, and she hits harder than both of them combined.
To be fair, Velocity doesn’t exactly add much to that last part when he’s at his highest speeds.
She’s knocked down four more buildings while we’ve talked, I’m pretty sure. How long before she happens to knock over our hideout?”
Brian pursed his lips.
Yeeah, the Loft might become a casualty here.
“And she leads her own sub-group within Empire Eighty Eight, so I’m betting that Fog, Night, Alabaster and Crusader are on the streets, doing their own thing.
Oh, so Alabaster is also in her group. Alright, maybe we’ll get to see their power before this Arc is over, then.
I dunno about you guys, but I have friends in our neighborhood. I’m very not cool with that.”
Brian sighed, “Fine. We go. But no direct confrontation until we have a game plan, especially not before we reunite our two groups. Where are you guys?”
Sounds like a good call. This is very much not a case where the Undersiders can rely on brute force.
Hm… I wonder what would win out between Purity’s light and Grue’s darkness. In theory, the darkness should stop it, but that’s pretty clearly not normal light she’s tossing around.
…I suppose the same can be said about Triumph’s shouts, except with sound instead of light, explaining why Grue couldn’t just cover Triumph’s mouth with darkness to incapacitate his power. (That said, I still don’t get why he removed the darkness from the heads of the Protectorate members in the first place.)
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