“I think we’ve got a stray, Tasha.”
That’s a new name.
If they’re talking about a person, I’d venture to guess that Tasha and whoever is speaking aren’t the nicest of people.
Tasha frowned as she looked up from her cell phone, and looked to where Daniella, behind the register, was pointing. Her lip curled in distaste.
Hm. A register implies this is a shop of some kind, I guess. Still not sure if they’re talking about a person or not, but it’s absolutely a possibility that they’re not, and an animal has just entered the shop.
It was a girl, fourteen or fifteen, with dirty blond hair – both in the sense of being greasy and in color – tipped with streaks of blue.
Nope. Person.
Dirty blond with streaks of blue? Interesting.
Her clothes looked like they had only barely made the cut for the goodwill bin, and had been worn for weeks or months since she’d gotten them. The girl was pretending to look through a collection of jackets that were still left over from last spring. People like that weren’t supposed to be able to walk around the Boardwalk and bother people.
Hmm.
I briefly considered the idea of this being Rachel in the past, but that doesn’t seem too likely. The hair color is easily explained since this girl either dyes it or has had it changed by a power (much like Canary), but there’s also the issue of her age and the timeline.
Whoever this girl is, though, we’re definitely in the past, which means we’ll presumably be drawing out of a flashback later in the Interlude (because that’s how Wildbow tends to do this kind of thing – the non-flashback part of Interlude 7 is the most he’s gone back in time between chapters so far). And while the girl seems to be important, we’re seeing this through Tasha’s POV, so it’s probably her flashback… hm.
Krixwell Liveblogs 