The bugs passed through Shadow Stalker’s body, slowing her momentum.
That’s something, at least.
She suspected that if there were enough of them, they could even carry her aloft, push her back. But there weren’t – the swarm wasn’t quite big enough.
Hm, unfortunate.
As the stream of insects passed through her, reoriented in preparation to flow through her again, she pounced.
The residual bugs threw her off, slowing down her power. Her body had to push them out of the space it wanted to occupy, delayed the change back to her normal self by a half-second.
Hopefully that’s a useful half-second to Taylor.
Her hand passed through Skitter’s throat, but she caught her balance, drew her rearmost foot up and back in a half-spin. Her heel collided with Skitter’s mask.
Ouch.
Skitter went down, and Shadow Stalker turned her crossbow on her fallen opponent. She was about to fire when the combat stick lashed out.
You do know it’s called a baton, right?
I guess we do know from before that Sophia isn’t that good with words.
She lifted the crossbow up just in time – had she been a second slower, the stick might have broken her weapon.
She’s consistently calling it a (combat) stick – this is the third instance. I don’t think she knows/remembers what it’s called after all.
Acutely aware of the bugs clustering on her, she dropped into her shadow state before they could crawl beneath her mask.
It’s kind of like with Velocity – in one state, she’s limited in what she can do offensively in return for increased mobility, but in the other, she’s vulnerable.
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