What I did know was that I’d done too many things I regretted.  I wasn’t about to add something as serious as murder to the list.

Good bug girl. 🙂

Grue must have seen something in my posture, because he shook his head and turned away.  “Give me the gun, then.”

That is not the point, dude.

“Just use your power,” Tattletale told him.

Fuck, he can steal Taylor’s power.

Bug control vs stronger bug control tug of war!

“I want Skitter to acknowledge that she doesn’t care enough about this team or about me to do what’s necessary.

It’s not that she doesn’t care, it’s that she doesn’t think it’s necessary!

She can do that by admitting she doesn’t have the courage to shoot and allow me to do it.”

“That’s not what this is about,” I said.  “Murder is serious.  You don’t kill without being absolutely certain it’s right.

Exactly! We’re sympathetic protagonists, we can’t just kill anyone who annoys us!

And nothing’s certain for as long as we’re under the influence of this miasma.”

Very good point, thank you.

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