“Right.”
“But as far as bugs are concerned, at least, I figure anything goes.”
“It’s still creepy.”
Maybe anything goes as far as how you treat the bugs, but that doesn’t cover how you treat people using those bugs, right, Taylor? Like putting them in extremely uncomfortable places for no reason, Taylor? Like perhaps under the eyelids, Taylor?
Seriously, though, she convinced herself that was what she had to do to further her information-gathering mission, and sure, incapacitating Clockblocker was important to that. But there was no real reason to stick the bugs in the most uncomfortable places Taylor could find.
“Give it time. You’ll get used to it.” I picked up the tightly folded piece of paper that was the end result of my little experiment.
After so many Interludes, it’s an odd feeling to be back to first-person narration.
Also, “experiment” seems to suggest this isn’t just a hobby activity. I guess that was too much to hope for.
I pushed at two corners of the tight paper square, and it settled into a cube about three-quarters of an inch on each side, with holes on two opposing faces.
Huh. Some sort of decoration to be put on a string?
I directed a housefly into one hole and settled it inside, then fed a braided length of twine through the holes. I handed the result to Charlotte and ordered the bugs to start making another.
Nice.
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