Battery drew a phone from her belt and tapped her fingers on the keypad for a moment.  She gave Tattletale a dark look as she held the phone out.

…what? Is this so you can put it on speaker?

A woman’s voice said, “Not like you to tip your hand, Tattletale.”

She is acting a bit less subtle than usual. Now the PRT can demand the return of the earpiece, and she’s given them more to go on when it comes to figuring out her power.

They’ll also change the encryption key either way, but that won’t help for long if she has the earpiece.

“Director.  Are we really going to pretend you didn’t know I was listening in?  You’ve been putting out misleading details to screw with my information gathering.

Has she, or did you just pick up the misleading details meant for Chariot?

Done quite a good job of it, if I may say so myself.  Very subtle, all of it just right enough that even I was thrown off.  Couldn’t trust much of it.”

Huh, not bad, Piggot. I’ll give you that one.

(Of course, if it was the misinformation meant for Chariot, Piggot can’t exactly say so.)

Battery stepped forward, glancing over at our team, “This one is already set to the encrypted channel, it’s faster if-”

Tattletale probably did that with the one she has, didn’t she. There’s a good chance she’d Know how to if she tried.

Tattletale interrupted, “Uplink three-three-five, encryption forty-two mod three-four-two-one-zero-zero-six-six-three-one-zero-”

Ahahaha

Shenanigans like these are part of why I like her so much. 😛

“You have access to our channel,” Battery growled, interrupting Tattletale’s spiel of numbers.

Tattletale shrugged.  “Have for a while now.”

I wonder how much info she’s been able to glean that way.

Battery raised one hand to her ear.

“Yeah, Battery,” Tattletale grinned, “Let’s do as the Director says and get down to business.”

Pffft.

So wait. Wouldn’t Lisa have heard Piggot tell Chariot– oh, that’s how she knew that “they want to talk” last chapter. I guess Piggot didn’t specify Tattletale after all? In which case this is on Chariot, Glory Girl and Battery. (Yes, all three of them, even if it was all Chariot’s decision.)

“Me?”  Tattletale quirked an eyebrow.

I suppose Lisa’s about as surprised at that as I am.

Piggot should definitely know this is a bad idea, even if they’re not entirely sure how Lisa’s power works.

“Sure,” Chariot said.  Just behind and to one side of him, Glory Girl was glaring at Tattletale.

Right, I suppose she wouldn’t like Lisa either. She probably thinks Lisa’s talked Amy into joining the Undersiders, too. And she’s not entirely wrong if she does.

She looked like she was ready to hit people.  It was the kind of latent hostility I was used to seeing in Bitch.

Victoria can be pretty scary if you get on her bad side, even without her aura. And right now she seems to be in a frame of mind where it doesn’t take much to get on her bad side.

“Not terribly fair to my teammates, if it’s just a one-on-one conversation.”

Ahh, so that’s how we’re solving that.

“Are you going to take this or not?” Chariot asked, his hand still extended in her direction.

Well, maybe.

“No real point,” Tattletale shrugged.  She tucked her hair behind her ear and turned her head.  “Already have one.”

…fuck, I forgot about that! Ahaha, nice!

So does Taylor get the other one?

Prey 14.4 came out on September 15th, 2012, huh… If I’m not mistaken, that means we’re going to hit my sister’s birthday a couple chapters from now.