The inch deep water splashed as I ran, my feet already sore from the impacts against the pavement. The soft soles of my costumed feet made me quieter when I walked, but it wasn’t fit for running.
Huh. I suppose she didn’t anticipate how much she would be skittering around while out in costume, due to her power letting her fight from a hidden location, like she started her career by doing against Lung.
How much of my decision just now had been because I didn’t want to kill a man?
Before she went into detail, I figured that would be her primary reason, so this is a question I’m interested in.
To what extent was she justifying not killing to herself?
I was indirectly responsible for the deaths of others. I’d looked at the information on the capes who’d died during Leviathan’s attack and found Chubster, the fat man I’d failed to save. Innumerable others had died because we hadn’t been able to stop Bakuda, giving her the chance to attack the city, killing forty-three people and inflicting horrific injuries on dozens more in the process.
Hell, if you allow more layers of indirectness, it can be argued that Taylor may have been a cause of Leviathan’s attack in the first place, unless there’s something to Coil’s hypothesis that he was attracted to Noelle for some reason.
But I don’t think these are cases for Taylor to beat herself up over. She did what she could. She failed, but she tried.
When Thomas, the man from the Merchants, had been bleeding to death, I’d given the order to leave him there to die.
This one, on the other hand…
I don’t think it quite counts as her killing him, but it’s the closest we’ve seen by far, and she was actively responsible for it.
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