He let go of my hair, and my mask clacked hard against the floor. I heard a girl scream, heard noises and shouts from everyone else.
Seems it was convincing enough for the audience. For all they know, they just witnessed their one supposed protector getting her throat slit.
I swallowed, partially to check that my throat really hadn’t been cut.
That would be a problem.
My costume had saved me. I wished the gathered onlookers hadn’t witnessed the scene.
I think this scene benefits from what we saw in 9.6. We saw back then that slitting her throat didn’t work with a knife, which was believable, and because we’ve seen this on that smaller scale already, it became more believable as a result. It came with a sense of consistency rather than “oh, okay, guess that works”.
This would’ve still made sense without the incident in Sentinel, because we’ve know her costume is quite tough from the start, but I don’t think it would work quite as well.
It would have been better if the bugs had blocked their line of sight, as their noises of fear and alarm were going to get his attention.
Ah, yeah, I thought about that too but forgot to mention it. I already expected his next priority to be further civilian slaughter, but it doesn’t help to immediately remind him of it.
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