Manipulating Amy 1

It irritated me that Glory Girl had talked about me, but it didn't surprise me. Dean was her boyfriend after all, and I suspected that things were uncomfortable at home. Panacea's mother would have started putting more pressure on her after learning that I'd talked to her, and about some of the things that I'd said. That pressure would cause Panacea to push back, even if only in passive aggressive ways, and it would push her closer to reaching her potential.

After all, if you didn't want a teenager to do something, the last thing you did was forbid it.

Just the fact that her mother was telling her not to associate with me likely created some resentment in the mind of Amy Dallon. She'd be tempted to associate with me just to spite her mother. Her loyalty to her sister would keep her from acting out on it, but as far as I could tell, Victoria Dallon didn't have any real animus toward me.

Of course, I hadn't talked to her since the attempted kidnapping. It might have changed as a result of that. A lot depended on whether she believed I'd set her sister up or if she thought that I'd saved her.

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