“Skitter’s right here, she’s not dead.”
“My armband broke,” I replied.
“Did it? Or did someone break it?” Tattletale’s gaze went to Armsmaster, her voice dropping in volume to ensure that our ‘audience’ didn’t hear.
I considered that possibility back when someone asked me what I thought had happened to the armband, but I don’t know why someone would intentionally do that.
…
Maybe so they could have Skitter join the Wards under a different name and costume, with the Undersiders not knowing a thing?
“What are you implying?” Armsmaster growled.
“I’m implying that you set things up to guarantee yourself a one-on-one fight with Leviathan. Who cares, after all, if some villains get murdered in the process, if it means stopping an Endbringer?”
…holy shit.
The breaking of the armband did happen when Leviathan crossed into Skitter’s area. Armsmaster knew enough about Leviathan to possibly predict that he would go there, allowing him to send Skitter there in the first place, having rigged her armband in particular. Then he could go there himself, potentially kill Skitter if she was there, and then claim Skitter was dead before he got there, just check the logs.
The one thing against it, besides him not having been particularly murdery in the past, is that he genuinely sounded surprised to see her alive. Was he acting?
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