I had to use my bugs. That wasn’t so simple when the things I was retrieving weren’t small.
Yeah, figured they wouldn’t be. If they had been, the bugs would’ve probably been her first choice.
I had a box of pens and markers in my room, for sketching out the costume designs. I also had first aid kits in my bedside table upstairs and in the bathroom on the ground floor.
Hm, yeah, that sounds useful. Especially the first aid kits.
Bringing all of that stuff here meant opening the boxes and retrieving everything I needed, carting them here on a wave of crawling bugs, past puddles and flooded streets.
Finally the pens, markers and first aid kids can experience the joys of crowdsurfing!
I collected markers, pens, bandages, ointments, iodine, candles and needles. Especially needles. Smaller bottles of hydrogen peroxide. At least, I hoped it was the iodine and hydrogen peroxide.
Hard to tell without reading the labels.
So “materials” meant mainly medical supplies. No wonder there weren’t many around, besides the ones in use by the paramedics.
I couldn’t exactly read the labels. The bottle shapes felt right, anyways.
So here’s a thing – if she’s gotten better at processing audio input from the bugs, enough to recognize the kind of music someone was listening to while in a stupor, could something similar have happened with visual input? Maybe she would even be able to read if she tried?
Though if you go by the theory that she got better at listening through the bugs because she subconsciously tried to understand Grue using them, there wouldn’t be a clear reason for the same to have happened to sight. Yet.
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