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Aisha gulped, realizing the trap she’d just stepped into.  “You can hear me?”

Trap, you say…

Also, I suppose she hears Aisha in more than one way, although Aisha probably doesn’t know about how Cherish’s power manifests for her.

A second passed, and there was no response.

“Put it away, or I’m going to leave you quivering in a corner, shitting your pants.”

Sounds unpleasant.

“You can’t hear me.”  Aisha gripped her weapon and stepped closer.

Well, not quite, apparently. Not in the mundane way, at least.

Maybe she’s bluffing? Perhaps she heard the emotions of the people upstairs, figured there was an invisible enemy around that would be using a bladed weapon, and is now just saying this in case Aisha’s there?

…but that sounds much less likely than her being able to partially sense Aisha.

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Plague 12.5

Hello, everybody! This is the guy who reads the thing, back to do more of that!

Last time, our main girl had to leave a hurt friend behind and run off to tell other people, like her dad and the people she decides over, about the fact that the glass bird is going to do bad stuff to the whole city soon.

This time, I think we’re going to see how that goes for her, and probably get a first look at how much of a hurt the glass bird makes. I hope she actually finds her dad and we get to see her try to tell him about the trouble without giving away the hidden truth of how she learned about it. Or better yet, forget completely about that and get caught off guard by her dad asking about it.

And then she’s going to have to tell the people in her area about it. That’s a lot of people, but she has a lot of small creatures, so she might be able to tell them in a way at least some of them will accept. She doesn’t have time to ask them all to come to one place so she can tell them in person, which would be the best at making people go and be safe.

In the bit at the end of last time, I also talked about Tiny-Run using her small creatures to lower the hurt done by the glass bird, such as by having them be in the way of the glass to slow it down. I still think that’s a thing she might do.

So yeah, without further waiting, let’s stop talking like this and get on with it! 🙂

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The massive spike of glass plummeted from the sky.  He knew it was coming, had kept an eye out for it, and timed a leap to coincide with its descent.

Oh. I thought she was going to blow the spike up in mid-air and let the glass rain down on the battlefield, or a larger area. Seems she’s going for something more like a Skrillex storm, though.

No use.  It veered unerringly for him, speared into him with enough force that it nearly sheared him in half.

Ah, the tip of the spike is pointing downward! The shape makes a lot more sense now.

Cricket uttered a strangled scream as she got hit by the fallout of glass shards and scraps of metal.

Ouch.

“Stand,” Shatterbird said.  Her voice held traces of a British accent, and her body language and the crisp enunciation made her sound imperious, upper class.

Neat, we’ve got a fancy one over here.

“I know you survived.”

Lots of people wouldn’t, but this is a man made of metal, and she knows that. Though Shatterbird did find a good way to get around that – replace her trademark piercing damage with crushing damage.

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I could detect a definite note of irritation in Dragon’s voice, despite how she’d synthesized it to mask her tone, inflection and speech patterns.  “You were tampering with my system,” she accused us.

At the end of the last chapter, I mentioned “the cold wrath of the Dragon”, but this is something much scarier:

The cold wrath of the sysadmin.

Extermination 8.6

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Hello, flesh beings.

I am Krixwell. That is my name. I am not a robot. Here, let me prove that.

Look. This is easy. This says…

Calculating…

Calculating…

Calculating…

You know what, it doesn’t matter. Let’s get on with it.

Accessing imported human memory bank…

Last time, Taylor saved at least some of the people at a shelter and got paralyzed from the waist down, Bitch’s heart was broken at least six times over, Scion showed up to scive the day and was really cool, and Taylor was taken to a hectic hospital and… possibly arrested by the PRT instead of treated.

This time, we’ll hopefully see whether that last part is true, learn a little bit more about what the hospital treatment (to whatever extent Taylor gets a treatment) is like, and possibly see what happens as Taylor and other villains get processed further by the PRT. Maybe we’re in for an interrogation scene.

Without further delay, let’s jump into it!’); DROP TABLE Blogs;–