Must be horrifying to be one of the four caught up in Regent and Cherish’s tug of war. One’s got you by the emotions, one’s taken control of your body, and you’re just left to scream in your own head as two superpowered criminals fight over control of you.
(Three; one of the four non-soldiers Cherish sensed was Alec himself.)
Yeah, that’s pretty hellish. On top of that, one of the villains eventually admitted to be carrying a bomb that would go off in a few minutes unless she called it… and that her phone was out of battery.
I kind of glossed over the awfulness of their situation – having been under Alec’s control for who knows how many days – in general. Largely because we’ve been over most of what’s worth saying about that in Interlude 10a, and because more immediately important things were going on. But yeah, their situation sucks a lot.
I do wonder, though – where did they come from? Did Coil provide some non-soldier subordinates of his for Alec to control, or did Alec just steal some random civilians from the street or something?
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