For me, at least, it’s HEAVILY implied that Ballistic’s reluctance to kill Cherish was Cherish sensing murderous intent towards her and then fucking around with it. The whole thing seems reminiscent of her powers in general.
Oh yeah, that’s a really good point. And Taylor didn’t think that was the case because Cherish hadn’t given any indication that she’d noticed the ambushers.
The one thing that makes me wonder, though: why didn’t she do the same thing to Trickster (and maybe Skitter)? Did she miss that murderous intent?
Also, there might be a range issue. Cherish has a decent range for messing with emotions (and a much larger range for sensing them), but it has seemed to be more like “across the street” than “three blocks away”. Though that’s a minimum, so who knows.
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