Through my swarm, I could feel Tattletale waving. Grue hadn’t swamped her in darkness, so there was nothing hampering her progress. What did she want?
I just waved
to say “I love you” 🎵
I just waved
to say how much I care 🎶
More to the point, how the hell were we supposed to communicate? I reached a block ahead of her and formed my bugs into a word. ‘WHAT?’
“I can’t hear you, there’s too much noise!”
“WHAT?”
“I said I can’t hear you, there’s too much noise!”
“WHAT?”
She tapped her hand to her eye, then to the top of her head.
“I h(e)ad…”
“Mind’s eye”
“She has an eye on top of her head!”
Again, I formed my bugs into a word. ‘WHAT?’
She tapped her head a few more times.
If it’s as simple as that Siberian forgot they had a roof window open… Nah, Taylor would’ve noticed that while sweeping the truck.
I was disappointed that a girl with superpowered intuition couldn’t come up with a better signal. What did she want? Eyes could mean see, head could be about thinking? Her power?
Or your power. Who the fuck knows.
“Look at her head”?
She reached back over Trickster’s shoulder with one hand while holding the reins with the other. My bugs had to settle on her finger to follow her gesture. Pointing? She was pointing behind him. At Sundancer.
What about her?
I suppose they could trap Siberian inside the sun, but they’d just be forced to wait it out. Jumping off the truck to do anything about it would mean death.
Eyes, brain, Sundancer.
“I have a bright idea!”
“Let’s blind them even more and cook their brain!”
Honestly I have no idea what she’s trying to say so I’m just throwing out joke answers at this point.
She wanted to see, to use her power, to use Sundancer?
How? I mean, I’m not surprised to see Sundancer become relevant to this mission after her usefulness was questioned last chapter, but what exactly do you have in mind, Lisa?
Tattletale was waving now. The opposite of a beckoning gesture. A scooping motion, as if to push us away.
“Back off, we’re going to throw a miniature sun into the fray.”
Still no clue what the eye and the head taps were about, but this part seems fairly straight-forward.
She wanted us to go away? To get back? She wanted to deploy Sundancer’s power. That made sense. And she wanted to be sure we were out of the line of fire? She could only do that if she saw us, and she could only use her power if she could follow what was going on.
Sounds about right.
From my seat behind Grue, I steered Sirius around another corner, then brought us up behind Tattletale’s group. We gradually caught up.
“Hey, Tattle! You really need to get better at signaling!”
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