“Have her cut it out? I don’t want to sound like I’m giving you orders, but I don’t want my little brother shooting people.”
“It’s fine. Tattletale told us to do whatever you required as far as the boy is concerned. I will tell Minor, and he will order the others to keep the boy away from weapons.”
Sounds alright.
“Thank you.”
“I will also decide on a punishment for the boy for being rude and hanging up on his sister. I think we would all like him to learn some respect for his betters.”
I know, right?
She could imagine him looking at Bryce as he said it.
Hehe.
“Nothing too serious? As punishment goes?”
“Nothing serious. It will build character.”
‘Course, who knows what “nothing serious” means to Jaw.
“Thank you. Any word on what Skitter and Tattletale are doing?”
“No. All I know is that it will be dangerous, and every squad is on high alert. We are sleeping in shifts, maintaining combat readiness and doubling patrols.
In case the Undertravelers need backup.
I take it they haven’t requested the Coildier support to the Boat Graveyard yet?
We were informed three hours ago that the downtown area is off-limits. I know Lieutenant Fish was deployed there when the order came down, and he has ceased all communications.”
Alright, I’m pretty sure it hadn’t been three hours since the miasma struck, so it looks like the chronology is linear here.
“All of downtown?”
“Yes.”
Probably worth staying out of a bit beyond that, too.
She hung up and headed for the bathroom to tend to the damage her hands had accumulated over the day’s work. Disinfectant, antibiotic ointment, bandages. Every time she thought she’d found the last small scrape, she found another.
I hope there was an unnarrated goodbye here. Otherwise I’d have to question the entire Kiley family’s phone manners.
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