“He’s doing okay?”
“No problems, last I heard. You? I saw that cloud of bugs earlier.”
I guess Tattle’s territory isn’t too far away. Though to be fair, the cloud would be visible from a pretty good distance.
“Made a big play. Everyone here should know this is my territory, now.
Yeah, a “play” is a good way to describe what she did, even if she does mean it in the sense of a “play for power”, a move in the game of capes.
Merchants tested the waters, I dealt with it. Remains to be seen if this works out in the long run.”
The biggest problem I see with Skitter’s way of going about this – something I thought of one of these last few days but forgot about before getting around to posting about – is that she needs to sleep. Normally that wouldn’t be that much of a problem as long as her enemies didn’t identify her sleep schedule and exploit that to attack while she herself was off-guard (something which her eventual employees (drones?) might help mitigate the damage from), but here’s the thing: Taylor promised her subjects that she’d keep the insects from bothering people in the ways insects normally do. How is she going to do that while asleep?
To be fair, she has controlled bugs while unconscious before, to the hilarious distaste of John Cleese. But that might just make things worse, depending on what her subconscious gets up to at night.
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