“You’re stalling?” Coil asked. “I don’t see the point.”
“Just trying to see if I can provoke a reaction from you. There’s only so many times I can read the labels of the shipping containers before I lose my mind. Have to amuse myself somehow.”
That ought to be enough for Lisa to figure out where Cherish is, in case tracking her down in person should actually turn out to be a necessity.
“What will it take for you to tell us where Panacea is?” Coil asked.
“Oh, I’m feeling generous, and I want to see what happens. I’ll tell you that as a freebie. They’re at Arcadia. Somewhere in the top floor.”
They’re – Amy and Victoria? Let’s hope they haven’t clashed.
A freebie. Something was going on, and I wasn’t aware what.
Yeah, if she’s giving a freebie, there’s something else she has up her sleeve that won’t be free. She’s already implied as much, too.
I had to piece it together, but I had so little information.
I suspect it may have something to do with the person following them, somehow. We may have to let her catch up in order to find out.
Wildbow is clearly keeping her identity from us until a reveal. Back during the Scene, that made total sense. The audience, while most likely meant to be on Taylor’s side like I was, needed to feel the same sort of uncertainty about who this woman is as the characters did. That mattered much more than who it actually was. But now, she’s been pretty clearly established as “important somehow”. The question is just how she’s important, and that ought to become clearer when we find out who she is.
“And maybe I could offer you something, in exchange for some goodwill. Maybe you’ll even want to let me go free, no obligations.”
That’s gonna take a hell of a playing card. What’cha got?
The feeling of dread that had been following me wasn’t getting worse as the woman approached. It was staying steady, like someone had a gun pointed at me, and they’d had it aimed my way for some time now.
Oddly enough, I’ve been more and more getting the feeling that the woman isn’t actually a threat, though this particular paragraph doesn’t help reinforce that.
“I’m listening,” Coil said, “But if this is frivolous or another waste of our time-”
“Nah. Critically important. I’ll trust that you’ll take it for what it’s worth and repay me in kind.”
So spit it out already.
“What is it?” I asked.
“Oh, it’s simple. Going by what I’ve been able to observe around the city, there seems to be a major concern. Si Jack effugit civitatem, mundus terminabitur.”
Fucking Latin? She’s not gonna make this easy for them, huh.
Fortunately, though,I’m able to tell what it says without looking up any translations: “If Jack leaves the city, the world will end.” So the other information she has for them is that he’s doing so?
I’m still not sure averting this is still on the table (in-universe – out of universe I’m pretty sure it never really was), but it’s worth a shot.
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