The boy screamed in some combination of horror, pain and rage, and flashes of the whiteness erupted randomly around him.
Ah, shit, here comes the “out of control” part.
Some caught people who were lying prone on the ground, others hit standing combatants, while most simply hit thin air.
The chances of Sierra not being happy at the end of this all just keep on rising.
A trigger event. I’d just seen someone have their trigger event.
So you did, and it was a lot more interesting than I had expected.
But what had happened to Skidmark’s group, Tattletale and I? I could vaguely remember something, thought about trying to put it into words, as if describing it could help call it to mind in a way that I could describe it, but they disappeared as I reached for them.
Judging by Skidmark’s reaction, it really does seem like this is a common occurrence when parahumans are close enough to other parahumans during their trigger event. He seemed to have experienced the same thing Taylor did and he knew what it meant. But none of them remember what they actually experienced, just the aftereffects.
I was reminded of Imp’s power. Before I could get a handle on it, I’d forgotten entirely, and I was struggling to even remember what I was trying to do, my thoughts muddling the idea of it with my attempts to get my bearings.
Who’s Imp again?
But yes, it’s very reminiscent of that. It’s like the tesseractids are suppressing all memory of themselves in humans, whether that’s intentional or not.
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