I continued my search for the pair, but my tentative explorations of the trails of extermination-mist made a sweeping search all but hopeless.
This makes a lot of sense as a way to open this chapter. It wouldn’t be like Taylor to just immediately go, “welp, guess they’re gone”, even if the finality of 14.10′s ending line did imply she wasn’t going to hold on to the hope of finding them that strongly.
It felt like I was facing a series of decisions where every answer had some merit, but picking the wrong one would spell disaster.
Them delicious tough decisions.
I’d had to make the call between staying at the school in case Jack and Bonesaw were preparing a trap for Amy and Glory Girl, or leaving in case they’d made a run for it. I’d left, and I’d been lucky enough to be right.
Unfortunately now there’s no way of telling which way they actually went.
Fuck, can you even be sure they did go? I mean, like I said last time, you’re not supposed to have the ball under one of the shells at all. I meant that they may have dropped the gas to make Taylor not consider the one path they did take, but who’s to say they took one at all?
I don’t think they did stay behind, but it’s a genuine option Taylor is not considering here.
Except the Nine were now covering their tracks with a dozen decoys, mechanical spiders leaving trails of bug-killing smoke, leaving me to guess which direction they’d gone.
Yeah, nice recap.
Two solid possibilities dwelled with me.
The first was that they’d headed back downtown to rendezvous with Siberian. If I was drawing the right conclusions from what I’d overheard, Bonesaw had drawn together a cocoon for Siberian similar to the one that Amy had created for Glory Girl.
Yeah, seems like it. I do suppose they might go pick Siberian up.
They could be recovering her real body, maybe doing something to recover Mannequin or Crawler.
To do that they’d probably need to head back into the Bakuda Band. That’s probably not at all safe, even now, without the Monochrome going alone or holding the others.
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