She turned to look over her shoulder, and Bentley took some cue from that, because he turned slightly. Maybe that helped, because she hauled him into a hard left turn, wheeling around.
Nice, she’s actually listening.
Whatever it was that Mannequin was doing, it spread fast, knocking my bugs out of the air and reaching out past Bitch and Bentley before they realized the threat and started running away from him.
Though perhaps a little too late?
“Get back!” I shouted.
Bitch urged Bentley into a run. They made it four steps before Bentley collapsed.
Well, fuck.
Tumbling to the ground, Bitch landed and couldn’t sustain her own weight with her injured leg. She landed flat on her stomach, and then began making retching sounds as she gasped for air and continued to crawl forward.
Air… is he somehow removing the air around the possibly fake Mannequin (the mouth might just be an addition he decided to make to his new head), causing the bugs, Bentley and Bitch to suffocate?
I do suppose managing the air in and around his casing falls under the coverage of a biosphere specialty.
Mannequin’s mouth continued jittering up and down, and he took a step closer to us, his hands upturned at his sides.
Okay, yeah, I think this is real.
I’m honestly surprised he’d add the mouth. Isn’t he interested in looking inhuman, that being part of why he didn’t have facial features?
It seems like he might’ve added it specifically so he could “laugh” in Skitter’s face like this.
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