He shook his head. “No.”
Wait, what?
Was that somehow a fraction of Taylor’s power?
“No?”
“She wasn’t in my darkness, I’m almost positive. And my power’s weaker than whatever I’m stealing. It doesn’t make sense that I was able to form myself as fast as I did. It wasn’t like she’s described it, either.
Yeah, that’s a good point.
Remember, I worked with her when we were dismantling the ABB.”
I nodded.
“It was more like… a forcefield. Except not. A hole in reality, and it took something out of me to feed and shape itself.”
Maybe one of the civilians running around as decoys had a trigger event before the Undertravelers got there?
It’s not Night, is it? No, I think that would just result in Grue himself changing into something slightly monstrous.
I blinked a little in surprise. If Brian was stealing a share of other people’s powers, then-
I blinked again. My eyes were itchy.
…alright, so the itchiness is important somehow.
Also, one thought that I forgot to write above because I dismissed it: What if he somehow borrowed the power of a Dandelion?