She headed for a group of people and knelt by one of the wounded who was lying on a sheet. I could see her posture and expression soften as she talked to them. So she wasn’t like that with other people.
Ahh. The villain effect, huh?
Whatever. I’d been prepared to be hated when I committed to villainy.
That’s good, because that’s really something you should be able to see coming.
I gathered all of the supplies I’d brought and sent more bugs out to scout for more.
What I wouldn’t give for a working cell phone, to find out about how Tattletale was doing, even to ask after my dad. But cell phones had computer chips, and computer chips had silicon.
Called it!
There’s also the issue of the screen, but that’s more survivable for the phone’s functionality, and some phones may have plastic screen covers instead of glass.
Everything that was electronic and more complicated than a toaster was probably fried, with exceptions for some tinker-made stuff.
Hm, interesting. I guess some tinkers use super advanced computer chips that don’t use silicon.
There was no use dwelling on the fact that two people I cared about were gravely hurt. I couldn’t do anything about it now, and time spent wondering was time I wasn’t protecting and helping these people.
Yeah, probably best to focus for now.
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