But if I was wrong, if I went to the harbor to try to get ahead of them and Jack didn’t go that way, then my friends would suffer for it.
Also: you’d risk getting too close to Cherish yourself.
Brian had been through enough, and while Lisa had seemed to deal okay after she’d been scarred, I was willing to bet she valued her mind more than she valued her face.
Fuck yes she does.
I headed downtown.
Let’s go reunite!
No matter which way I chose to go, I’d have that awful feeling of regret in my chest. I tried to quiet it by telling myself that with Tattletale and the others, I’d actually be able to do something against the Nine. A gun and knife didn’t cut it, no matter how scattered or few in number they were.
And neither do bugs.
But will you, though? Will you be able to do something against them, or will they be gone before you can, leaving you with a bittersweet victory?
I couldn’t quite manage to convince myself.
As it didn’t cost me anything significant in terms of forward momentum, I let Atlas carry me higher. I was getting more comfortable flying him, and there was little difference in being a hundred and fifty feet above the ground and being five hundred stories up.
She says that like she’s been in a 500-story building.
To be fair, those may be more common in the Wormverse thanks to Tinkers, but I doubt there are any in Brockton Bay specifically. We’d have heard of it as a landmark by now.
I wanted to assess the situation. Was my dad one of the people who was depending on this cure?
Oh yeah, that’s quite possible.
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