He has to check but apparently he does.

"What do you want to talk to her for?"

"Oh, she invited me to go kill Heartbreaker with her and maybe there are now enough of me that this makes nonsuicidal sense as a plan."

"Well, good luck. Try not to get Canada blown up."

"I will attempt to confine the collateral damage to his extremely immediate vicinity."

"Coming from most people I wouldn't actually find that reassuring but I guess you might be an exception to that. Well, six exceptions to that."

"In all seriousness his rate of kidnapping people is sufficient that I'd probably think it worthwhile to trade a few of his hostages for a definite killshot, but I will hold out for the best possible plan and would be surprised if it couldn't be pretty clean when we're probably all immune to him and nearly all his kids."

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure that collateral is why there isn't a kill order - to big of a risk of a lot of innocents dying, plausibly without him even being captured."

"Which is kind of silly, it's not like the Slaughterhouse Nine are above taking hostages."

"Slaughterhouse Nine has a much higher kill count, and their hostages don't tend to come out of it okay either."

"Yeah. Anyway I find Heartbreaker very personally upsetting and would find it very satisfying to squash him."

"Hope you succeed!"

When we know what all our powers are and Sarcina gets us all suits made are you still up for assassinating Heartbreaker?

.

I don't know what that means.

lol

and a minute later

yeah
im in

Great. Do you want to try out my power, we don't know what it does yet besides let Lacuna sleep.

I'm glad you got so much out of that field trip to Egypt you must have taken but I don't communicate in pictograms.

A good thirty minutes pass before before Lorica Tribune gets another email:

wait shit you dont live at that theater
ill take the power test

were you at

What theater?

one of the crappy play and your mom

After another twenty minutes Aisha is at her place, looking for a person to follow through the front door.

"Hi, Aisha," says a Lorica, on her way home from the hardware store.

Aisha startles.

"What? It's me! We're all me!"

And she noticed Aisha! The bit where it was a Loricae who noticed Aisha wasn't actually relevant.

She glares at Castra and then rolls her eyes - the two universally applicable responses.