I was a short distance away from the Nine when I saw a wet spot on the wall, complete with discoloration of the paint.
Something Bonesaw planted?
I sent bugs in, and they felt shards of glass on the floor around the patch. I wouldn’t have said that the swarm smelled anything, but there was something heavy in the air as flies beat their wings, the muscular action simultaneously drawing oxygen in.
Probably not anything good, if I were to guess. Miasma?
Whatever it was, it was dense, cloying, odorless and colorless, only extending a dozen feet around the spot.
Except Taylor should know how the miasma feels to the bugs by now.
And it’s certainly not colorless.
Could this perhaps be something Amy did to keep the miasma away if it should happen to make it into the school?
Another thing this sounds like is Brian’s darkness, but I’m not sure I’d describe that as colorless either, even though black is physically a lack of color. “Colorless” carries more connotations of transparency, which the darkness very pointedly does not have.
But if it were to be Brian’s darkness… why? How would he have ended up here?
…Lisa and Trickster, at the very least, may have gotten down from the building they were left on. Bentley was roaming the streets, but he was not ridden down by “Lisa” and “Brian” like they claimed (hey look! another hint I didn’t think hard enough about – it makes little sense for Lisa to bring specifically Brian on Bentley), so why would he be down there? Either Lisa brought him down or he’s affected by the miasma and ran off on his own.
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