Tattletale glanced at me. I looked, in turn, to Coil. He gave me a barely perceptible shake of his head. He wouldn’t fork over the amount.
Yeah, figured as much.
“You’re not really in a position to be making demands,” Trickster said. “You’re bleeding to death, and we do have the ability to hurry the process along.”
True, though she has some pretty good bargaining chips to keep herself alive.
Cherish shrugged. “Bonesaw gave me the works. Mesh sheaths for every major artery and organ, wire reinforcement for my skeleton. It’s not going to kill me anytime soon.”
“It’s just a bullet hole, sheesh.”
I made a mental note of that. Chances were good that Jack, Bonesaw and the other more vulnerable members of the Nine had some similar protection.
That they do!
How differently would things have played out if Ballistic had used his power and blown them up?
Well for one thing you wouldn’t know that Grue had been captured, assuming that still ended up happening.
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