The heroine leaned hard to one side, looked down. “Hm.”
“You’ll be a little groggy,” Tattletale grabbed the last remaining chair from beside the kitchen table to sit down opposite the vigilante ‘heroine’. “The fight took a lot out of you, and we tased you, and I took the liberty of sticking you with one of your own tranquilizer bolts.”
Ahh, that would explain why she was asleep to begin with.
“You don’t hold back,” Shadow Stalker commented, seemingly unfazed by her circumstances. She tested the strength of her bonds, experimentally.
“Says the person who tried to slit my teammate’s throat,” Regent spoke.
Regent may be content with staying in the background most of the time, but when he does speak up in a serious conversation, it tends to be on point.
Shadow Stalker looked at me, the eyes behind her mask moving to my throat. “Tough costume.”
…is that meant as a compliment??
I mean, she doesn’t know that Skitter’s resourcefulness and creativity are the reasons behind that, but still.
Also, Sophia, I don’t think the fact that you failed was the point here.
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