Crawler tilted his head one way, then the other. He rumbled, “Fine.”
“Which only leaves you, Cherish, our errant rookie. You’re dejected because you know Bonesaw has a punishment in the works. But you mustn’t lose heart.
“We’ve got something awful planned for you, but stop worrying so much!”
You’ll still have a chance to redeem yourself, and maybe even escape reprisal for your juvenile stunt. I think Mannequin should start us off, and he’ll be penalized one day from his time limit for his loss tonight.
Huh. Well that ought to help motivate her.
As for Mannequin, is it fair to penalize him retroactively like that? I’m not sure either way.
And you’ll have to deal with the bug girl, to make up for this embarrassment. Make her suffer.”
Hm. Either this is a hell of a coincidence, or Jack knew where Mannequin was. Mannequin hasn’t done anything to indicate who defeated him.
Mannequin tapped once on the blade.
I know we established already that this means yes, but I suspect he would very much like to use it on Skitter.
So Mannequin is now officially Skitter’s assigned enemy. Fair enough! I’m not sure I’m interested in a one-on-one rematch between them, but Wildbow could make it work. He certainly did with Lung, though Lung’s power is unusually well-suited for scaled-up rematches.
Lung has been quite thoroughly removed from the main setting and overshadowed in terms of threat level, but there’s still a small part of me that says we’ll be seeing him at full power for a round three.
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