“Let’s hope,” Grue agreed.

Trickster said, “We just sent Genesis back in a more discreet form to listen in.”

Ohh, nice! Good idea!

“Imp is staying behind as well,” Tattletale informed him, “So we’ve got redundancy there.”

Oh my cod, well played, Wildbow.

I hope either Taylor or Trickster goes “Who’s Imp?” or something like it.

“Christ,” Grue snapped his head from one side to the next, as if he could spot his sister that way.  With a note of alarm in his voice, he asked, “Imp’s still there?”

Apparently so!

I really love the subtlety of this – Imp wasn’t mentioned at all in the previous chapter, even when going over who were in each boat, suggesting Taylor had forgotten about her again and her power was active. I didn’t catch on, but it was absolutely possible to do so, not because of what was there, but because of what wasn’t there.

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