“I’m not that stupid,” she growled the words. “Don’t treat me like I’m retarded. I’m not. I know you have powers.”
Flying in on a giant beetle, dressed in costume (though the costume is lacking a mask for reasons I can’t remember)… yeah, this is a reasonable assumption.
“That wasn’t what I wanted to say,” I said. I kept my voice low, my tone as calm as I could manage. “I was just saying I’d disarm myself if it would reassure you.”
And Rachel is saying she knows there’s a very good chance you physically can’t fully disarm yourself.
“The only thing that’s going to make me feel any better is getting the fuck away from here. But she wouldn’t get out of my way.”
“If you leave,” Tattletale told her, “You’ll go straight to the Trainyard, to your other dogs, and you’ll get worse.
I suppose so, yeah.
You’ll wind up isolated from the rest of us. And I think the Nine want that. They wanted people for their group, and doesn’t this set their candidates up for easy recruiting?
Oh yeah, that is what they did with Amy. So the 5% might be tracking down another one of the nominees?
Maybe this is how Armsmaster comes back into the picture, though I still think that should be saved for when he knows who Taylor is.
Separate them from their previous attachments, leave them vulnerable and lost, then give them the hard sell.”
“Not that you’re wrong,” I said, glancing at Tattletale while trying to keep the dogs in sight, “I saw Jack trying that with Panacea. But Bitch tends to see it as slimy or conniving when someone talks a lot.”
Oh yeah, good call pointing that out. That’s probably not something Lisa’s power would tell her before seeing Rachel’s reaction to her talking a lot.
It also helps sell the idea to Rachel that you really do know her.
“I see. You want to try, then?”
Bentley growled. It didn’t sound like a dog growl. What worried me, though, was Bastard. He was untrained enough that he wouldn’t necessarily listen to Bitch, and big enough to feel confident about attacking.
Yikes.
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