Jonathan?
Aisha looked down at the body, and realized the heart was beating inside Bonesaw’s hands. The man’s eyes were moving, and his lips moved as he struggled and failed to make words come up through his windpipe.
Oh, I see. The squeaking may seem to come from the guy attempting to speak, but it’s actually a dove named Archimedes.
The surge of horror and disgust gave Aisha the strength to cast aside her doubts.
Y’know… when I talked about Bonesaw being impossible to kill, that was a joke, but it honestly does seem believable that she’d install some failsafes in her own body. Though self-modification is more Mannequin’s thing, and biological failsafes was Aegis’.
“Sorry kid,” she said.
She plunged the knife into Bonesaw’s bare throat.
Let’s see how this goes. Good luck, Imp.
Bonesaw screamed, shrill and loud, which caught Aisha off guard. With a knife in her throat, the girl was screaming?
Hm. Was I right?
Or did Aisha just miss the throat proper?
Reacting more on instinct than wit, Aisha pulled the knife out and then slashed it horizontally across Bonesaw’s throat.
She’d expected a spray of blood or gurgling. Neither happened. Bonesaw screamed again.
Yep, looks like she did install some protections.
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