He’s trying to distract me.

Yeah, and also get you talking about things you’ve done that might be offputting to Amy.

I scampered along the length of the hallway, keeping low enough that I wouldn’t be visible from the window while I moved to the point just beyond the effects of the bug-killing cloud.  I could send bugs after Bonesaw and the sister -Victoria, was it?- but Bonesaw would still have that cloud of smoke around her.

Yeah, you should probably just let Victoria handle that side of the fight for now.

I doubted my ability to achieve anything on that front.

“There’s always some guilt related to family.  Tell me, what would your mother think, to see you on an average day?

Dude.

You made her not remember that.

Or can’t you remember her with the miasma?  I’d almost forgotten.”

Oh, okay, he pretended not to realize that so he could make a jab about the lack of memory with the miasma.

…I think. He might be telling the truth here, but it just comes across so smug, I have a hard time believing he didn’t set that line up for himself.

Even if I couldn’t remember her face, who she was, or even where she was, I could feel a pang of regret that knotted in my gut.

or even where she was

ouch

I grit my teeth to remind myself to keep from opening my mouth and grasped the cords that my bugs had threaded together.  I looped them around Atlas’ horn, and then I ran down the hallway, still keeping low.

…what is she doing? Is she making a web to catch him in?

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