As Doug approached the stage, taking the long way to keep his distance from his newly empowered ‘friend’, I became aware that my bugs were dying on the roof, where I’d gathered a swarm in preparation during the chaos. A patch here, a patch there.
Shit. Dude, seriously, I know you can’t fully control it yet, but try to keep your power away from the roof, please?
No. Not dying. They were stunned, their senses obliterated by bursts of chaos and false sensations.
Hm…
Does someone else have powers?
Or did Faultline’s Crew show up? Because this kind of sounds like the bugs have wound up in an area affected by Labyrinth’s power.
I had an idea of what it was. I’d felt the same thing before.
Yeah, I think that’s what this is.
I turned to Lisa. Moving my left hand from the scratch on the back of my upper arm, I discreetly pointed up and murmured, “There’s company on the way. We should go before there’s trouble.”
Heh, as if there hasn’t been trouble throughout the chapter.
It makes a lot of sense for Faultline’s Crew to show up. They’re the ones we know have ties to the Dealer subplot, and it’s believable that they may have recovered these vials while investigating that, only for the Merchants to come and steal them, possibly not knowing at first what exactly they had found.
So, of course, it’s time to steal them back, and maybe punish the Merchants.
She looked up, then nodded assent. Tapping Minor on the shoulder, she gave him a hand signal, and he notified the others. We began moving.
I will admit I’m a bit disappointed at the prospect of leaving instead of seeing the Crew in action against Skidmark and his people.
The person on the roof was joined by others. Some bugs died beneath their footfalls. More bugs were stunned as the first individual crawled forward on all fours, around the lip of the roof and onto the ceiling of the mall, hanging off of it by his hands.
Hiya, Newter. 🙂
Ohh. It wasn’t Labyrinth’s power causing “chaos and false sensations”, it was Newter’s. The bugs are drugged again.
I guess I was wrong in a way that still led me to the correct conclusion.
With the building largely unlit, I couldn’t make him out.
Ninjewter.
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