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Love me, you?
Love me, true?

It might just be a quirk of the shuffling and/or of the narration, but it seems whoever this phone belonged to liked love songs a lot.

Her boots splashed as she danced a little circle, murmuring the words.  The light drizzle had wet her hair, and she pushed it back out of her face, stretched her arms out and let the raindrops fall against her closed eyelids.

You, who presume you can stay dry, by
Dodging all the raindrops,
Falling,
Thick,
Try lifting up your tongue
To the rain not just the sun
Nothing quite so simple
Was ever so much fun.

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She supposed she could have bought something to coil up the cord of the earbuds, or replaced the music playlist instead of deleting everything that didn’t appeal.

Hm. Old phone, or stolen?

It wasn’t like she didn’t have money.  It was an option.  What stopped her was the fact that she had a pattern going.  Everything she owned and everything she used day-to-day was stolen.

Yep. So she refuses to replace the playlist entirely because not just the phone but the playlist, too, is stolen, whereas a new playlist would break the c-c-c-combo.

Also this puts a pretty hefty third nail in the coffin of “is this Amy”.

The shirt on her back, her shoes, the music, her laptop.  She kind of wanted to see how far she could get before she caved and actually bought something.

Hehe, nice.

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J’adore-

Into that French pop, huh?

Or maybe it’s not pop. That’s just the first genre that pops, no pun intended, into my mind when I think of French music.

Sweet Honey-

Love me, love me, you know you wanna love me…
Love me, love me, you know you wanna love me…

Ah, looks like she’s not feeling up for these tracks. They all seem to be love songs so far – perhaps she’s out here because of love issues and wants to listen to anything but love songs to take her mind off of things?

Her head nodded in time with the beat, and she slipped the phone into her pocket.

Oh, never mind, she liked that last one. Guess it’s just a matter of what she felt like listening to at the moment.

I’m often the same way. I’ve got nearly all my Spotify music in one large playlist (currently exactly 700 tracks, 39 hours and 33 minutes), and usually pick something I’m in the mood for as the first few tracks and let shuffle do the rest, occasionally skipping tracks I’m not feeling at the moment, or adding tracks I do want to hear to the queue.

Other than that playlist, my other main way of listening to music at the moment is LumiRadio, which plays Homestuck music. I’m listening to that right now.

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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.)

Oh, and how did I forget the biggest problem with ear buds? They keep falling out.

If you’ve got wired ear buds, you’re going to be accidentally pulling them out when you move your arms around. If you’ve got wireless, I guess they’ll fall out less often, but when they do, there’s nothing to stop them from falling all the way to the ground or floor.

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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!