Shard to Shard Communication

"No," I said. "Ambitious is talking to free floating parasites while pretending to be another shard in order to get as much information about Scion as possible."

"What?" she asked. "You can do that?"

"Jack's power gave him the ability to communicate directly with other parasites; it's part of the reason he was so slippery for all these years. His parasite communicated with the others, and the others manipulated their hosts to help him out. They also warned him when things were going to get too hot."

"And you can do that?"

"More," I said. "The hard part is disguising the fact that I'm not one of them, so for the moment I'm just listening in on the format of their communications. I can learn a lot just by intercepting their communications and if I can figure out how they talk to each other, I'll be able to make my own inquiries."

"That's…"

She was staring at me.

"You don't win a war without learning as much about the enemy as you can, especially when they have more power than you do," I said. "So I'm gathering as much information as I can, and I'm planning to find out what kind of weaknesses they have."

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