He wasn’t going to accept this. They’d insulted him, hurt his people. They wanted to subvert his mission and twist it to their own ends? No.
And this is why you don’t hire people in this fashion.
If they don’t come of their own free will they’ll find a way to make you regret it.
His face twisted into a scowl as he looked over the glass-strewn street, and at Cricket’s prone form. He’d told Shatterbird he’d kill her sometime in the future, had hopefully led her to expect something further down the line.
No, he would go through the motions of their ‘test’, even join them for the short-term. But he’d kill them sooner than later. Before they left the city.
Niice. Good luck with that, though. Probably won’t be easy.
Especially Jack. Jack’s not going down, I’m 99% sure of that.
He looked at his people, saw Othala hurrying over to Cricket’s side to grant the young woman regenerating abilities. Rune was hurt, the right side of her face torn up, healed only enough to close the cuts and stop the worst of the bleeding. Probably Othala. Everyone else was injured to some degree, many gravely.
Oh hi, guys.
Yeeeeeah. Shatterbird really didn’t care who she hurt as long as it got you on the team, it seems like.
Or rather, she cared about it as a matter of effectiveness.