Gets a good look at her enemies without making it obvious

“Now what?” DeeCee asked. “You’ve made an enemy out of half the city, you shattered the unwritten rules, you’ve got me here… What, you gonna gloat?”

She made a show of looking around, head swiveling as she gave me and all of my other selves a perfect view of all of the goons Bakuda had brought along and where they were all placed. Good girl, DeeCee, I thought as we adjusted our positioning. The whole plan hinged on being able to get everyone at once.

“You certainly brought a large enough audience for it.”

Bakuda laughed, a wheezing, stuttering noise that sounded more like Dad’s truck on one of its less cooperative days than something that came out of a human mouth. “Oh, they’re not here to watch me gloat,” she said. If I could have seen her mouth, I imagined she’d be showing all of her teeth. “They’re here to watch me… Well. Do whatever it is I decide to do with you.”