But I’d also be trying to use microbes to form some kind of defense. I’d be reaching out for algae or other plant life I could use to obscure my retreat.
Hmm. That might work?
Something to produce an opaque gas, to block line of sight or give me hiding places.
Ohh, yeah, that makes sense.
There might be a limit to how much she can change at once while running, though.
Amy had far, far more versatility than I did, and I had little doubt she’d be able to mimic my power with a little time for preparation.
How? Change the bugs to have, like, biological radio antennae or something?
With some forethought, preparation and strategic thinking, she was capable of holding her own, getting away. She had so much potential.
I do wonder if this is, to some extent, Wildbow pointing to how good she’d have been as an alternate main character. :p
I mean, obviously she wasn’t good enough for him to stick with her, or I’d be reading a story called “Guts & Glory” rather than “Worm”, but I get the sense that he did like her.
But Amy Dallon wasn’t that sort of person. She hadn’t gravitated toward front-line combat, nor had she gotten in any real fights, to the best of my knowledge.
Closest she’s gotten might be against you, actually.
When Leviathan had hit the city, she’d stayed behind to give medical care instead of using her power against him. Now she was panicking, up against an unstoppable enemy and an inevitable fate, and she didn’t have the tools, mental or otherwise, to hold her own.
Yeeah. Like I was saying between chapters, she’d be dead in no time if it hadn’t turned out Siberian plays with her food and eats it bit by bit.
Siberian would catch her and release her over and over, taking her apart piece by piece. Eventually the blood loss would mean Amy couldn’t run any more.
And then it’d be over.
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