I tried to move and failed. My fingertips twitched, I could blink if I focused on it to the exclusion of everything else. My eyes, at least, moved readily enough.
Well, that’s something at least.
I couldn’t do anything. Even an instruction as basic as ‘find Bitch’ was beyond my abilities at present.
Oh right, she’s out there too, I forgot about that! Another potential rescuer. Maybe.
Bonesaw had talked about this ‘passenger’. My ally, my partner, after a fashion. Was there some way to use it? To put more power in its hands?
Possibly, but who knows what’ll happen if you give more power to a remnant of what is, in practice, some kind of eldritch god?
This might work a little too well.
Help! I tried, putting every iota of willpower into the command that I could.
That’s… actually a really good idea. “Attack!” was specific, but with “Help!”, it’s a lot more vague what the passenger should do, perhaps giving it more freedom.
But it might also be too vague for it to do anything at all.
Nothing. Too vague. Whatever aid my ‘passenger’ provided, it wouldn’t think of something I couldn’t.
Fair enough. That’s better for the story anyway. Let Taylor do the thinking for herself, she’s good at it.
Having this work well would reduce Taylor’s agency in the long run and make it uncertain which things were Taylor being skilled and clever, and which things were just the passenger calling the shots.
Incidentally, that may be why Bonesaw calls it the passenger in the first place. It’s there, but it’s not the one at the wheel.
My bugs didn’t respond.
It was the perfect time for a rescuer to show up.
That would be nice, huh?
My bugs had stopped going after Bonesaw because we weren’t aware about her current location, so they hovered in place, clinging to walls and feeling around for people who might be their target. There was a chance that they would bump into someone else. If a rescuer was coming, my bugs would see them.
Hmm. Better hope that doesn’t mean they’ll assume the rescuer is Bonesaw.
There was nobody. No people on their way.
So far, at least?
Also I suppose even if they did find a rescuer, they’d only assume it was Bonesaw if Taylor’s subconscious did.
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