Tattletale frowned. “Fine. But you’ll have to hurry. That’s a lot of distance to cover, and the miasma’s nearly here.”
Gotta be sure you can get back, too.
Trickster cut in, “Gather bugs together like you were doing, remember that they’re not as dense as our bodies are, so we need more than you’d think if I’m going to swap them for one of us.”
That makes sense, yeah. So he can use them like this, that’s handy.
I nodded and flew for the tallest building in the area. I turned around and waited for Trickster to swap me.
He didn’t. They stood at the roof’s edge, looking my way, and the dark red miasma climbed up the sides of the building around them.
Dammit, Trickster.
Are the two of you trying to make Taylor go off already but just willingly submitting yourselves to the miasma?
It felt like my heart dropped out of my chest. Brian, Rachel, now Lisa?
I guess she doesn’t particularly care about the Travelers compared to the Undersiders.
I couldn’t afford to turn around and confront them -time was too short- so I focused on gathering my bugs. I clustered them together, pressing them into a largish human shape. How many was enough?
Was he lying by implying that he was going to perform the swap?
I felt a jarring sensation as Trickster swapped my bugs to his location. Sundancer appeared beside me.
Okay, I think I see what’s going on. He didn’t want to swap Taylor to them because she’d have to wait for Atlas to get back and might get caught by the miasma herself that way.
Also, Trickster is very likely going to prioritize himself next, possibly being too late to save Lisa.
“Why?” I asked.
She shook her head, “They didn’t say anything. They were both really quiet while you flew off, and then Tattletale said ‘It doesn’t look like her plan will work out. Tell her I’m sorry.’
Oh jeez.
So they let Sunny go over there because she was the only one who actually wanted it.
Trickster teleported me here before I could say anything or ask what she meant.”
Well, maybe. Seems she didn’t get a say in the matter.
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