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Popping the foam-covered buds into her ears, she began thumbing through the music as she walked.

Walking with music is good fun, just as long as you’re careful.

I’m more of the on-ear headphones type myself, though. Ear buds aren’t all that comfortable to me, and it seems to me they’ve usually got worse sound. Besides, my headphones are wireless these days, meaning I don’t have to deal with the Wire Scouts.

(I know there are wireless ear buds too, but I wouldn’t trust myself to not misplace one of them.)

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A teenager with a red streak dyed into her dark hair strode down the street in rubber boots.  Three hours past curfew, alone.

Hello.

Does Amy have a red streak? I don’t remember that, though she does have dark hair. New character?

She drew a smartphone from the pocket of her jacket, then set to untangling the earbuds.  How did the damned things always get so knotted together?  They were like Christmas lights.

I like to insist that all wires – especially this sort – have been Scouts at some point. That’s why they’re so good at knots.

Also, I like that the comment about Christmas lights is, in a sense, completely out of season on all fronts. Wildbow published this in June, I’m reading this in April, and I believe it’s April or May in-universe.

Not that she’d ever untangled Christmas lights, but she’d heard how Christmas lights got tangled.

Hmm. Possibly a hint at this character being raised with another religion or buzzkill parents? Or maybe no parents.

Also, it’s occurred to me that it might be unusual for Panacea to have a curfew, so that’s another point against this being Amy.

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Well, one more bit of prediction before we start: If I’m right about Bonesaw’s specialty, it’s very possible we’ll be meeting her at a hospital. This also fits my theory that Panacea might be her nominee, seeing as Panacea frequently visits (or at least used to frequently visit, but I doubt Leviathan changed it given the sense of duty we saw in Interlude 3) hospitals to heal people.

Interlude 11g (Anniversary Bonus)

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F I N A L L Y

Now we can move on from this madness and get ready to meet, most likely, Bonesaw!

As far as predictions goes for that, I pretty much covered everything in the intro for the previous chapter:

As for who Bonesaw might want to recruit… Panacea sounds like a weird but plausible option, if I’m right about Bonesaw having a specialty in medical equipment and thus probably also a medical background. We’ve established that Panacea’s power can be used offensively, too, and she is the daughter of a known bigshot criminal – those things might appeal to the Slaughterhouse as well.

But yeah, if Panacea is an attempted recruit, I don’t think it’ll work, unless she is forced like Hookwolf was (and I doubt that’s happening in two chapters in a row). Panacea has a spiteful, slightly darker side, and might be tempted by the prospect of dropping the exhaustion that comes with her responsibilities, but I think at the core, she’s a very good person who cares about fulfilling those responsibilities at the expense of her own health.

Incidentally, if Amy is Bonesaw’s attempted nominee, she’s likely to be the POV character for whichever one of these Interludes is about Bonesaw. Perhaps we’ll learn something about those secrets of hers that would wreck her relationships if they came out.

Nothing about my predictions re: Bonesaw has changed since then, and the Newbie (who could take this spot instead) is too mysterious at the moment to speculate much on.

So without further ado or nonsense about measurements, I’m going to go make myself a bowl of popcorn and then we’ll get this party started!

Interlude 0.388 oz (Anniversary Bonus)

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Howdy! Krixwell here, ready for some more Wormy acti– wait.

The imperial system? No no no no, fuck that. Where’s the lever that switches between the units…

*grumbles while looking for the lever* Seriously, who even flipped it to imperial in the first place? Sharks, maybe? …ah, there it is. Let’s get the blog back to a sensible system of measurements and start over.