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Tree branch: check. Assorted lightweight seed-bearing fruits and nuts: check. Other seeds: check. Water bottle, for when she has to veer away from the river: check.
Better not linger in her starting place too much longer. Yellow's faster than her and may have already come home to a wreck. Thorn might have a habit of checking up on the place, even, just in case. She's invisible, inaudible, unsmellable - that won't help if he sends someone thorough. Or comes in person.
She sets out.
She's been flying for about thirty minutes after her shopping trip when she falls through a tear and squeaks inaudibly and lands in the middle of -
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imeanforever
wormcan
It continues bouncing off her force field exactly as before. Jack swaps it out for a sharp one.
"Well played! Offer's still open."
"Well played! Offer's still open."
imeanforever
"I'm really curious about why she's having trouble killing you," says Promise. "Care to share?"
He's probably got dozens of knives. And she's looked at him almost enough and he's a little occupied to keep shapeshifting and changing gait, now...
He's probably got dozens of knives. And she's looked at him almost enough and he's a little occupied to keep shapeshifting and changing gait, now...
wormcan
He is a little occupied, and there's only so much the anti-sorcery measures can do anyway. He twirls a knife around himself, shredding his shirt and apparently flaying himself from the waist up. If he feels anything he doesn't show it, and there is almost no blood. His appearance changes more from this than from any of the other minor changes.
"I'm very good at staying alive. But I do have to leave soon, so are you going to give the order or do I kill Liam and go?"
"I'm very good at staying alive. But I do have to leave soon, so are you going to give the order or do I kill Liam and go?"
imeanforever
"You won't be able to tell if I meant it or not unless you put him down," she points out.
wormcan
"I'll be able to tell if he's trying to move, and will even let him do it. More importantly, that's not an answer. You have four seconds."
wormcan
Well that was anticlimactic. Jacob stops. Once her hand is halfway through his head, the Siberian reverts to being stopped too.
imeanforever
Promise flies to where Liam has just been dropped unceremoniously on the roof. "You okay?"
imeanforever
Promise gives him a heal just in case he has an injury he isn't noticing and calls the invisible Victoria up to give him a ride home and tell his parents what happened.
Then she goes up to the Siberian. "You may, without inconveniencing me, breathe. Answer my questions truthfully and completely. Can you talk?"
Then she goes up to the Siberian. "You may, without inconveniencing me, breathe. Answer my questions truthfully and completely. Can you talk?"
wormcan
"West. Captain's Hill, most of them. Shatterbird, Mannequin, Bonesaw. Jack's dead, Cherish's dead, Crawler's dead, Burnscar is probably dead, Hatchet Face is mostly dead..."
If Promise really wants a complete answer she might end up sitting through a long list of dead members.
If Promise really wants a complete answer she might end up sitting through a long list of dead members.
imeanforever
"Do you know Bonesaw's name?" interrupts Promise. "Shatterbird's?"
imeanforever
Snap, snap. "If I bring you to Captain's Hill and don't make any really obvious tactical mistakes, will anything I would predictably dislike happen?"
wormcan
"Bonesaw probably has something set up. I couldn't tell you what. Other than that, you might be assumed to be a member of the Nine and earn a kill order. And in five or six billion years the sun might burn out."
imeanforever
Promise snorts. "Will Bonesaw be able to undo what she has set up?"