“Draw some fire towards the Nine’s location, if you can,” I said.
Half the point of the ruse was to keep that from happening, but it ought to put a spring in the Nine’s step.
“I said don’t distract me!”
But he listened. Shatterbird interposed herself between Hookwolf’s advancing group and the building holding the Nine and their hostages. Purity fired, and again, Shatterbird’s glass couldn’t absorb the full brunt of the hit.
It being accidental on Purity’s part helps.
She was hammered down into the ground again, and what didn’t hit her struck the building, not far from where the Nine were peering through the window.
“Make a move, you fuckers.”
“Come on, come on,” I whispered.
The Nine reacted. It just wasn’t what we’d hoped for.
Well, fuck.
So which thing were you hoping for, exactly? That they’d fight back?
Crawler stood and rumbled some words my bugs couldn’t make out, and the hostages fled. The Nine made no move to try to stop them. Just the opposite. They revealed why they’d kept them on hand.
This sounds very bad.
Is this very bad?
I think this is very bad.
The hostages made their way out the doors and into the streets surrounding the building. Purity was so distracted by Genesis and Shatterbird that she didn’t seem to notice what was happening at first.
Fuck, are they going to make Purity kill the civilians by accident?
Tattletale watched with her binoculars. “Oh no.”
“Oh no?” Trickster asked.
Oh no.
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