That last comment nettled me. I spoke up, “The Nine don’t really leave you alone once you’ve scored a win. We had to seize our advantage.”
Good point. If they didn’t push, the Nine would.
“I see.”
“And she has a weakness. Siberian, I mean,” Tattletale said.
“Do tell?”
This is not one to barter for. People need to know. The more the better.
“She’s a projection. Like Genesis is, as I’m sure you’re aware. Like Crusader’s duplicates. A quirk in reality that draws from her creator’s brain to create a body complete with all the physiological substructure. Which is largely for aesthetic effect, and I’d guess it gives her real self something the brain is familiar with controlling anyways.”
That’s a believable reason for the Monochrome’s humanoid nature, yeah.
“And the controller is vulnerable?” There was a note of interest in the Director’s voice.
Vulnerable and currently trapped in a crater.
Again, provided someone took Skitter’s text as a cue to pay attention.
“Particularly vulnerable. She can’t extend her invincibility over her real body.”
“I’m not sure I believe this. The Nine would have discovered this and I doubt the baser members could resist taking advantage of such a weakness.”
It’s incredible what some people can manage to keep secret.
“The power has range. I suspect the creator can stay miles away and still manage some control, but ventures closer for voyeuristic purposes or because it offers more control and faster response times.”
More control when closer? Sounds familiar.
“Much like Regent, hmm?”
Yep.
Tattletale paused. “So you know that.”
From the tone of the conversation, I would have expected a ‘No, you just told me.‘, but Tattletale wouldn’t have done that. More likely that her power confirmed her thoughts.
Yeah, Lisa’s too used to doing this herself to fall for a trick like that this easily.
“Shadow Stalker debriefed us. What do we know about this woman who controls-”
Based on what they saw of Regent controlling Sophia, do the Undersiders have reason to believe she’d know that, or more importantly, reason to believe she wouldn’t?
I wonder if Lisa has figured out what Alec did to Sophia yet.
“Man. The person who projects Siberian is male. But he creates a female body. I think it’s tied into his trigger event. Someone he lost.
…aww. That’s pretty sad. He lost someone dear to him, so the Dandelions gave him the power to make a copy of her.
Though Brian’s Monochrome when borrowing the power still manifests as a copy of himself.
If I had to guess, he sought revenge for her, but something happened. A side effect of the power, or just a seriously unhinged mental state… he lost it.”
And that’s how he turned into a monster who’d fit into the Nine?
“I see. Thank you for the information. Unfortunately none of those possibilities are narrow enough that we can use them to track him down.”
I wonder if Lisa has been prolonging the buildup to the bombshell that “actually he’s right here, stuck in a pit” on purpose.
“Not in the short-term. In the long-term-”
…
“I don’t intend for there to be a long-term, Tattletale. This ends today.”
Tattletale paused. “What did you do?”
Uh oh. Lisa has caught onto something.
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