“The Slaughterhouse Nine are here?”
“They’ve been here a little while. Go!”
“Sorry, it’s just, that’s a bit of a bombshell to drop on me like this–”
“The time to deal with bombshells was eight Arcs ago. Shut up and go warn people!”
“I don’t… how? How do I tell everyone?”
“Tell as many people as you can, tell them to tell as many people as they can. Now go!” I hung up, to force her to move sooner and because I couldn’t spare the breath.
The best and worst part of word of mouth: Exponential growth.
My range and fine control were extending. This not only kept the people behind me in my range for a precious few extra seconds, but it extended my range forward and to either side, adding one hundred people to the total who fell within my range.
Oh hey, range boost time.
I’m not sure Taylor has correctly identified what state of mind relating to her trigger event is causing this. She doesn’t seem to be feeling “trapped” right now, although she does want to be somewhere else (wherever Danny is), but she is in a frantic, worried rush to help people, much like in Extermination. Not so much like Hive, though.
Come to think of it, here’s the main thing Hive, Extermination and this situation do have in common: Large portions of the city were being threatened.
However, I don’t think that’s it, at least if Tattle was right. It doesn’t relate to her trigger event, and in Hive, she was motivated more by escapism than by fighting the ABB’s threat to the city, suggesting it wasn’t really that prominent a part of her mindset right then.
Soon that became two, three and four hundred more.
Niiice.
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