She scowled. “Whatever.”
I took that for assent and turned Lucy around. With a shout, I got her moving. I kept the phone in one hand while I rode, waiting for Lisa’s response.
Yeah, as far as assent goes, that’s probably the best you’ll get.
Also, Taylor! Don’t use your phone while riding! It’s unsafe! Do something safer, like fighting some of the country’s deadliest superpowered psychopaths.
It didn’t matter. She found me before I found her. Or, to be more specific, she found my bugs before I found her.
Oh, hey. So did she deliberately step into a bug swarm to alert Taylor or something?
There were enough flies in the city that most people didn’t give a second thought to one landing on them, especially if it landed on their clothing. I habitually used my bugs to check people nearby for weapons or masks, and when I checked the people in a building three blocks away, one of the bugs brushed against Panacea.
Oh – Panacea, not Lisa!
Well, then. If she pulls a similar trick as at the bank, I guess Taylor’s in for a headache.
She must have been able to tell it wasn’t an ordinary bug. As she’d done at the bank robbery, she used her power to scramble them and force whatever mechanism my power activated in their systems into a feedback loop.
Feedback loops can be pretty nasty.
Before it could incapacitate me and my power, I swept up the bugs with larger dragonflies and flying beetles and promptly murdered them, feeding them to other bugs in the area and pulling them apart.
Brutal, but I suppose it had to be done, to stop the feedback loops.
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