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One thing I'm a little amused by is that Arthur has apparently turned into a ghost in this story. Aside from seeing Victor off with the rest of the family after Hanse's funeral, he hasn't appeared, and even in conversations he almost seems to be an afterthought. I don't even know where he is...
I'll admit to some curiosity. Would the Director prefer to have a giant snake wandering through the city every so often? Or would she rather have an all-knowing, all-seeing, all-doing villain who wields a pistol, a shotgun, and a pair of shears residing full-time in the city instead?
Panacea: "You have EVERY idea--I saw what happened when you showed up last night!"
Atropos: "Yes, well, Glory Girl saw it too but she apparently doesn't remember."
Glory Girl: "Look, a lot was going on, all right?!"
IIRC, Atropos timed her jump into Amy's bedroom so finely that the portal...
Oh yeah. The Americanism would be "to cop to something", except its meaning is different--that would be "to admit to something." Here, "take it on the chin" is more appropriate.
Wow, Glory Girl, look at you using all these fancy words. :V I've seriously never seen anyone use "presentiment" as part of casual prose or everyday dialogue.
Somewhere in the Midwest US...
Regent: "I resent that remark! I'm not like them; I'm just a regular asshole!"
Tattletale: "Alec, what the hell?"
Regent: "I dunno, I just had this sudden urge to defend myself."
What do you mean, Glory Girl? Riley spelled it out for you:
Although maybe her later realization of Riley's old identity knocked that right out of her memory. :p
Artemis' opinions tend to vacillate? Here she thinks retaining one's humanity (or perhaps human morality/behavior) is a positive thing, while other times, well, remember when she was telling the story of the three sisters:
I wonder if the Elite higher-ups have re-assessed Bastard Son from "maybe" to "definitely" a write-off after such a public warning from Atropos. It would be amusing if they're already planning his replacement even though he's still alive for the moment.
Since that's the last line of the chapter, I half-expect the first line of the next chapter to be, for symmetry...
"She is a goddamn moron," Emily Piggot said.
Atropos: "Hi. I'm the new cape in town, and I'm outta my mind. You ever so much as touch the Brockton Bay database again, you even think my name, and I'll cut you into little pieces that'll make you useless to the PRT."
Director Costa-Brown (on-screen): "...Did you get that from a movie? An...
Ha. That old trick. The ending reminds me of an episode from the first Ghost in the Shell TV series, when hacker extraordinaire The Laughing Man futzes with the protagonist's cybernetic eyes and just calmly walks away.