He leveled a serious look at me, “Lisa said you were, and when it comes down to the two of you, I’m going to choose her. What Armsmaster said made too much sense, and a few of the little things about you suddenly made a lot of sense.”
Ah, yeah, I suppose the reveal would (re)contextualize a lot for you.
“No, I- I mean, I was going to betray you-”
Pfft, Taylor! You really need to collect your thoughts before you get ripped to pieces by the dogs.
“I’m going to fucking kick her teeth in!” Bitch shouted.
“Past tense!” I raised my voice, “I changed my mind!”
I think that was technically the future-in-the-past tense with imperfective aspect. (Apparently, in spite of having “pluperfect” for past-in-the-past, English doesn’t have a better word for future-in-the-past. Seriously, “future-in-the-past” is the term I got off Wikipedia.)
Now let’s see how the Undersiders take this.
Bitch made a deeper noise, low in her throat. Aisha and Alec approached, which contributed to the loose half-circle of people and animals around Lisa and me. Tension hung heavy in the air.
I wonder how in-the-loop Aisha actually is on this whole situation.
“You changed your mind,” Brian didn’t sound as though he believed me.
I guess he doesn’t really have reason to.
“Dealing with Armsmaster? Realizing what an asshole he was? It was kind of a wake up call. I’d already begun to think of you guys as my friends. And what we were doing, it wasn’t so bad. Most of our fights were against Lung’s gang…”
I guess that makes 3.4 one of the major starting points for the process leading up to the Decision. Though I suppose she might be talking about 6.6, which is far closer to when it was finalized, she had already started swaying before that.
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