“What the hell!?”
To be fair, it does seem like you startled her and things have been rather intense recently in Brockton Bay, but a “hero” like Shadow Stalker should definitely be more careful. Accidentally shooting a civilian or someone on her side to death just because they startled her wouldn’t look good on that already tainted record of hers.
Shadow Stalker rose from a crouch, becoming opaque in the process, “Oh. You shouldn’t sneak up on people when they’re on patrol.”
What? I nearly get shot and she blames me?
Hehe, yeah.
“You nearly killed me!”
“It’s a tranquilizer shot, and you have the fire escape behind you.”
Allegedly a tranq shot, at least.
Flechette turned to see Shadow Stalker was right about the fire escape. The bolt in her hand had a glass shaft, filled with fluid, a three-pronged head with a wider cross-shaped flare at the base of it to prevent it from stabbing too deep. Tinker made?
Okay, fair enough, seems this one’s genuinely a tranq shot.
We do know she isn’t always so kind, despite what she’s been ordered to.
“Geez. You shaved a year off my life, doing that.”
“Sorry. A little twitchy. Good to see you,” Shadow Stalker crossed the roof, offered a hand. Flechette shook it.
I did get the impression that these two hit it off during the Leviathan fight.
Gonna be interesting to see how Sophia acts when Taylor isn’t around, someone she actually likes is, and she herself is on duty.
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