All at once, this meeting had become about us versus them. The Travelers and the Undersiders against everyone else.
Good job, Hookwolf.
But let’s not forget there is still an actual threat that warrants this meeting to deal with too.
Hookwolf said, “Then agree to a truce. So long as the Nine are here, you’re hands off your territories, no fighting, no business. We can arrange something, maybe you all stay at a nice hotel on the Protectorate’s tab until this is dealt with. That’ll mean we can all focus on the real threat.”
You mean the one you haven’t been focusing on?
Yeeah, there’s no way this isn’t a ploy to make their territories defenseless.
Stay in a hotel until the Nine were dead, arrested or driven out of town. He couldn’t seriously expect us to do that.
And, also, this would put nine powers, some quite useful, out of the battle.
Besides, the Slaughterhouse Nine would very likely attack the hotel, because of Bitch and Regent.
“I’m inclined to agree,” Coil answered, after a moment’s consideration. “Perhaps now is an opportune time to share this information: I have sources that inform me that should Jack Slash survive his visit to Brockton Bay, it bodes ill for everyone.”
Yeah, might be good to put that out there. Get everyone on the case of attempting to kill Jack.
I still have no faith that it’ll work, though. I don’t think the climax of this story is going to happen when Taylor is around 30.
Hell, even the short time scale of two years seems far off if we keep going at the pace we’re going and the point I’m at within the story (I’m aware that I’ve passed the quarter mark, though I think I may have forgotten to post the ETA calculations that informed me of that) without any larger-than-usual timeskips.
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