Sugita was too busy reeling from the knee to the gut to respond or react.
“Attacking my people? That was dumb. Attacking a little kid? Dumber. Consider my territory to be a very bad place to be from now on.
She’s making it incredibly clear how unwanted they are here now.
I mean, if the spider bites weren’t enough of an indication.
My bugs can see you, they can hear you, and I’ll know if you slow down even a little as you leave, give you a few more bites.”
“RUN.”
The beetle climbed off Yan, using its forelimbs to pick up the gun by driving the points through the trigger-guard. It moved to Skitter’s side.
Y’know, I never thought I’d be reading about a beetle with a gun, but now that I am, it does not disappoint.
Yan, Sugita and Jay all took that as their leave to climb to their feet and head toward the door. None of them even looked at Skitter, but they stopped when she pushed the door closed.
Not go-time yet?
Oh! Is she gonna use the gun as a starting signal for them to race out the door?
“There’s no safe haven for you in Brockton Bay. My allies have control of every district, every territory. No shelter will host you, and our individual forces will be searching every other place you might want to sleep. Before you get far enough to find a doctor and get those bites treated, my contacts will have spread the word.
“Get the fuck out of our city.”
The doctors may have to treat you, but we can have our people sitting in the waiting rooms, or working as assistants to the doctors. If you show your face, you’ll get attacked. Maybe it’ll be a direct attack, maybe it won’t. Trust me when I say you won’t be in any shape to defend yourselves.”
Damn.
She seems to be exaggerating slightly, but Coil could genuinely have his Coildiers in such roles, so it’s not outside the realm of possibility for her. Just outside of the amount of effort she’d want to go to to deal with just these three thugs.
The suggestion is enough. The fear it’ll put in them.
The paranoia that anyone around them might be out to get them. That sounds familiar for some reason.
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