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Bonesaw- MR Teleporting

Mar 18th, 2024
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  1. She lashed out, striking, only her target was exposed skin, this time. Vista’s face, Crucible’s jaw. Bastard’s shoulder.
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  3. And then she kicked the wall, drawing her shoulders together as she slid between Clockblocker’s legs, her nose pointed at the gap in the railing.
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  5. Clockblocker shifted his foot to make contact with the long blades at her toes, touching her, and froze her in place.
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  7. “My face,” Vista whispered.
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  9. “Put pressure on it,” Crucible said. His own face was bleeding badly, but he didn’t even seem to notice.
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  11. And, more troubling, the wound was smoking. Murder Rat’s power.
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  14. Yet as soon as we captured one, another slipped the net. The Murder Rat Clockblocker had frozen animated again, slipping through the railing, only to find herself hanging by her throat, a silk cord binding her. My bugs could sense blood trickling, but the movement suggested her neck hadn’t snapped.
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  16. Two ways she’d escape. The first was obvious, cutting the cord.
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  18. The second?
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  20. “Vista, Crucible!” I hollered their names.
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  22. They whipped around to face me, saw me holding my knife, ready to drive it forward.
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  24. The smoke on Vista’s face flared, blossoming like a smoke grenade that had just gone off, and Murder Rat materialized, one claw already poised with the points facing upward, ready to drive upward into Vista’s unprotected jawline.
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  26. I’d seen her gesture as she hung on the rope, in preparation for her materialization. I had to lunge forward, striking the stairs with the boniest parts of my shins to catch the villain’s wrist with my free hand, pulling her off-balance.
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  28. - Worm, Sting 26.3
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