“I wanted to!”
“You had your chance, little b. You got distracted.”
Heh, Little B and Big B.
I could feel the heat of nearby flame as Burnscar manifested a fireball in one hand.
Another problem with this for the protagonists: If Grue does flood the place with darkness, the flame will be much easier to hit the targets with as long as they get Jack and Bonesaw out of the way first. Not because it lights up the darkness, which it wouldn’t, but because it’s an area effect.
Darkness rolled over Burnscar’s feet, a carpet. There was no direction to it, and very little volume. It pooled on the ground and spread.
I guess Bonesaw did limit his power.
“Yes! He’s doing it! Can I look? I just want to get the hard drive!”
Hard drive?
“No.”
“But-”
I could feel my heart pounding, pounding, then stop. The pain was gone. I was gone too. I had no body, only perception.
…what?
Is.
Is this a Dandelion thing?
There’s no one here who could be having a regular trigger event, but a) the idea of potential subsequent triggers has been brought up before (if it’s that, I think it would be Grue having it), and b) it’s possible this is a separate kind of Dandelion moment, perhaps tied more to Taylor’s attempts to empower her “passenger” than to anything else here.
Alternatively, maybe this is what the edge of death looks like in this ‘verse? But a genuine out-of-body experience not tied to the Dandelions or a power seems a bit too… paranormal for Worm.
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