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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
"Yes. But if I tell you the most important ones, it will cause results unfortunate for you. Starting from less important ones, Shatterbird will probably be actively watching for Jack as soon as she sees me and may spot you. The heroes are most likely on their way here right now, and might also try attacking my teammates. I have a human body and this one is a projection."
imeanforever
"Hush," interrupts Promise, when her brain catches up to that bizarre statement. "Until further notice omit answers the hearing of which would inconvenience me. Where is your human body?"
imeanforever
"How likely is it that your teammates will go kill it upon noticing I have you?"
imeanforever
"Okay. Does Shatterbird have a way to notice us if we're invisible?"
wormcan
"In theory. She won't, though. She's not very creative, and doesn't have reason to be especially vigilant at the moment."
imeanforever
"Do you foresee any likely problems if I approach her invisibly and stop her, approach Bonesaw invisibly under your protection and stop her and immediately order her to dismantle her contingencies, and then deliver a written order to Mannequin and stop him too?"
wormcan
"It would depend on what Bonesaw has prepared. And Mannequin might guess written orders work in time to prevent receiving one."
imeanforever
"If Mannequin can't be ordered can you kill him before he has a chance to do anything inconvenient?"
imeanforever
Promise chews her lip, then: "Any discernible flaws in a plan wherein you become invisible and immune to gravity, cling to my foot protecting me while I fly around and collect a Panacea clone, travel to the S9 hideout, and implement that plan?"
imeanforever
Promise takes a few minutes to shake that into a suitably hostile-vassal-proof order set. Invisible and with a Siberian dangling invisibly from her foot (and told not to respond to questions directed at others), she flies to collect the clones she left a block away and re-station them near the new battlefield, with the Amy under instructions to keep an eye out for anything Bonesaw-ish and shut it down hard.
Promise contingencies an inaudibility that will disappear when she speaks. And she approaches the Slaughterhouse Nine's hideout.
Promise contingencies an inaudibility that will disappear when she speaks. And she approaches the Slaughterhouse Nine's hideout.
wormcan
Shatterbird is the first one visible. She's out flying, circling around a completely different location. And she doesn't notice the invisible inaudible interlopers.
imeanforever
Promise bets on subtlety over speed. She goes up to Shatterbird.
"Take no new action. Behave as though nothing had happened."
"Take no new action. Behave as though nothing had happened."
imeanforever
Okay, good.
Promise re-contingently-inaudibles herself and goes to the hideout.
Promise re-contingently-inaudibles herself and goes to the hideout.
wormcan
Once inside, there's a Bonesaw and a Mannequin. Promise gets her pick of which one to approach and which one to risk noticing it.