“You really want to fight me?” Shadow Stalker asked her opponent, a note of incredulity in her voice. She raised her right crossbow. The one with the lethal ammunition.
I’m… not sure. On one hand, Taylor knows exactly who she’s dealing with. On the other hand, Taylor knows exactly who she’s dealing with.
Skitter didn’t reply.
Whatever else Shadow Stalker might think of the bug girl, how the girl was creepy, a freak, she had to admit Skitter had demonstrated enough viciousness to date that she could almost respect the girl as a fellow predator.
Oh fuck.
Man, if Taylor heard this…
But… I can kind of see it. She may only be vicious in certain circumstances, but she has been doing her share of manipulation and sometimes violence for her own goals.
Just look at what she did to Clockblocker, for one thing. That was violence intended to further her own goals of manipulating the Undersiders.
I think Taylor’s civilian self falls in the victim camp almost all the time (though she’s been getting out of that role a bit lately), but Skitter leans somewhat towards predator.
An idiot, for wanting to fight her, but kindred, in a fashion. “Alright, fine.”
Doesn’t mean she’d be happy to hear that Shadow Stalker approves.
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