If only I could have blamed the miasma for my idiocy. Everything clicked into place.
I kept my voice level, “I don’t think you’ll get much goodwill if we don’t understand what the fuck you’re talking about.
Fair point!
Coil? We’re moving out now.”
“Report back when you’ve found the healer,” Coil told me.
Good luck.
I hung up before Cherish could speak, then I glanced at the others. “Let’s go? Arcadia high?”
They nodded.
So, Taylor didn’t elaborate on what “clicked into place”. Did she figure out what Cherish had said, saving that translation for the end of the chapter?
My heart pounded with such force that my vision wavered. I turned to head toward Arcadia high, joined by the two members of the Nine. Stay calm, don’t let on that you know.
Ah, fuck.
…
Fuck, she might actually be right. Damn it! No wonder they were so eager to kill earlier, if that’s true!
Wait. But Lisa, if that is indeed her name, definitely knew things Bonesaw and Jack shouldn’t, even with Cherish’s help. Then again, she didn’t help out with the disgusting toe code.
And Cherish mentioned Brian and Lisa being there, and while she absolutely enjoys making things difficult, I don’t believe her when she claims to be a paragon of loyalty now… but then again, maybe she said that specifically to fool Jack and Bonesaw?
I’m gonna have to reread this entire chapter before I move on to the next one, aren’t I.
Another issue: Where’s Siberian? Do they want Panacea in order to heal him up?
And then there’s the girl/woman who’s been following them. Lisa? Except she’d need to get a gas mask somehow, and the effortless escape from the bonds doesn’t match her either.
So many questions. Well played, Wildbow, whether these are Jack and Bonesaw or not.
Fuck, I just remembered “Lisa” suggesting that “Brian” could use his power to do it, which I questioned for a moment before reasoning that he could steal Taylor’s power. But if he’s actually Jack, his power would be perfect for what he’d be trying to do – ranged murder. He might even get away with it by virtue of Taylor not remembering Brian’s actual power.
Was this even the ending line of the chapter?
If I could direct the woman to us…
No. No it wasn’t.
And yeah, if you’re right which is very much unclear right now, you’re probably better off letting the woman catch up.
Unless she’s Siberian, but that’d just raise even more questions.
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