I didn’t expect to find him in the span of a minute. A figure on a nearby rooftop was striding through the webs and avoiding the bugs.
Oh!
Well, that was quick.
I stopped. “Mannequin.”
Everyone else froze. Even the dogs seemed to mime their master’s stillness.
Hah.
But he was already leaving, moving with surprising swiftness as he pushed through another few lines of webbing at the edge of the roof furthest from us.
Leaving? I guess he was just scouting, then?
A second later he was on the ground, moving through an alleyway.
Ah, never mind. Just leaving the rooftop.
“We could go after him,” Grue asked.
“We couldn’t catch him, I don’t think,” I said, “And he may be trying to bait us into a trap. Or maybe he wants to loop around while we give chase and kill my people.
And even if you do go after him, there’s the issue of fighting him. Admittedly you do have much more firepower right now than Skitter did when she fought him solo and won.
Shit, I didn’t think he’d come so quickly.”
“We weren’t exactly inconspicuous.”
That’s fair.
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