“That’s not funny.” His voice went hard, any gentleness gone.
Of course he would think she’s trying to joke.
He might not like her proving it to him. Possibly not survive it either.
…pfft, imagine if, instead of proving it by way of showing him her power or something like that, she took out her stolen wallet and showed him a printed group selfie of all the Slaughterhouse members, making victory signs in front of a burning and thrashed building. :p
“Look! There’s me, and there’s Mannequin, there’s Shatterbird, there’s Siberian with her knockers out like usual, there’s Burnscar, Crawler, Hatchet Face and… the new girl. Shoot, I keep forgetting her name. Let’s just call her Barbie, okay?”
“It’s really not,” she agreed with a smile.
Hehe.
He went for his gun, but he didn’t get that far. She closed her eyes for a moment, listened for the music that came from his mind and body.
Okay, I think we’ve got the Newbie here. I’m not sure what all she can do with this up close, but it’s a power that seems like it could be used to locate someone, depending on how much of a range it has. Besides, we know Bonesaw is a tinker, and this doesn’t seem like a tinker power at all. More thinker, with an H in there.
Turns out all the music, and not liking silence, was all foreshadowing of her power rather than of her amount of sanity.
The jangling, dissonant noise of alarm, the throbbing percussion of mortal fear, every part of his body shifting into fight or flight mode.
Ironically, this is telling her some of the same things I briefly mistook the music for being a power that could tell her about.
The underlying notes spoke to his personality. His love of his family, his fear that he was about to leave them behind, anger towards her, a momentary anxiety that he was overreacting.
This even more so.
But there’s probably more to this than that. The only way she could use this information to stop him from going for his gun seems to be Tattletale-style appeal to secrets. Then again, I haven’t finished the paragraph yet.
She grasped this in the fraction of a second.
Yeah, this has to be quick in order to stop him from drawing his gun on her.
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