This was what the Merchants were. Even less organized than the ABB, they were humans reduced to pack behavior, with Skidmark and his people acting like kids who would put animals in a cage and shake it set them on each other, instead of house-training them.
An apt description. We’ve seen so much bullshit from them that doesn’t seem at all organized by anything other than “might makes right”.
None of this made the Merchants any less dangerous, though. Just the opposite.
Yeah.
I had no options here, in the face of this. The most I could do would be to use my power on the entire crowd, and that would turn this already disturbed situation into something else entirely.
Yep, and I’m not sure it would even accomplish much of use.
So what now? Tactical retreat?