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Bella is, uncharacteristically, home alone; Andi is over at Robin's, and Renée is visiting a friend of hers in the hospital, though she could be home relatively soon depending on how much the two get caught up in conversation.
Bella is memorizing the map of Phoenix.
pandion
Bella has the ability to hit things she aims at, when she morphs her sister.
She brings the hammer down on his spine, just below the neck, as hard as she can.
She brings the hammer down on his spine, just below the neck, as hard as she can.
aeskhyne
There is a nasty cracking sound.
Trouble yelps and drops his tart. And slowly slumps forward onto the table.
"What the—the hell!"
Trouble yelps and drops his tart. And slowly slumps forward onto the table.
"What the—the hell!"
pandion
Bella grabs his shirt and dumps him onto the floor out of his chair and plants a foot on his stomach, not gently.
"I'll give you two minutes to crawl out of there or I crack his skull, peel you out myself, and have a new test subject for my interesting notions of chemical warfare. They won't be pleasant minutes; feel free to get out quicker. Start morphing and I'll kill you both if I have to."
"I'll give you two minutes to crawl out of there or I crack his skull, peel you out myself, and have a new test subject for my interesting notions of chemical warfare. They won't be pleasant minutes; feel free to get out quicker. Start morphing and I'll kill you both if I have to."
aeskhyne
He whimpers.
Not in the way that Trouble might whimper, if confronted with Bella offering to give him two very unpleasant minutes with a hammer.
pandion
Bella flips the handle around in her hand so the claw end is aimed out, then turns it again. "I don't know how much sensation he's got left below the neck to share with you. Let's find out."
She's seen Ethan do this. She knows Trouble can take it.
She just doesn't think this is Trouble.
She brings the hammer down on his shoulder.
She's seen Ethan do this. She knows Trouble can take it.
She just doesn't think this is Trouble.
She brings the hammer down on his shoulder.
pandion
"Come out," hisses Bella, "and it'll stop hurting. I haven't touched you. Yet."
Other shoulder.
Other shoulder.
aeskhyne
"nononononono," he moans. There is no evidence of the kind of faces he usually makes when someone is hitting him with a hammer.
pandion
"You have a minute and fifteen seconds and then I give him up as a lost cause, open his head like a pinata, and see how much bleach it takes to dissolve you."
pandion
"Forty-five seconds," says Bella, "I will not be satisfied until I see a slug, and how things go for that slug depends on its speed." Other elbow.
aeskhyne
"She's going, she's going," Trouble mumbles groggily.
And indeed, there is something greenish-grey and slimy starting to emerge from his left ear.
And indeed, there is something greenish-grey and slimy starting to emerge from his left ear.
pandion
Bella puts down the hammer.
When the slug has emerged, she picks it up, puts it in a mixing bowl, and fills it with water.
Only when she has done this does she slump against the counter and -
When the slug has emerged, she picks it up, puts it in a mixing bowl, and fills it with water.
Only when she has done this does she slump against the counter and -
Bella slides against the cabinets behind her until she's crumpled up on the floor.
"Wh-" She chokes before she finishes the sentence. "What do the other Yeerks know? Do we have to run? Is there time to get Andi and Robin and Ethan?"
"Wh-" She chokes before she finishes the sentence. "What do the other Yeerks know? Do we have to run? Is there time to get Andi and Robin and Ethan?"
hold-infinity
"They don't know shit," says Trouble. "They put her in me 'cause she fucked something up and Visser Three decided to make her sit through what Reggie does to me, as punishment. I'm not sure how much she knows, but she hasn't said a word to anybody."
aeskhyne
He demorphs.
"Her name's Aspret," he adds. "I actually kind of feel sorry for her. The only way I could think of not to spill anything to her early was to think about something really distracting, and I've got a head full of really distracting shit, and not all of it is cake recipes." He waves vaguely at the baked goods all over Bella's kitchen. "So she's been baking for like a day straight, because that's the only way she knows how to shut me up on the rest of it. I'm not even sure why she hauled it all over here, except I guess she saw in my memories that I do that a lot."
"Her name's Aspret," he adds. "I actually kind of feel sorry for her. The only way I could think of not to spill anything to her early was to think about something really distracting, and I've got a head full of really distracting shit, and not all of it is cake recipes." He waves vaguely at the baked goods all over Bella's kitchen. "So she's been baking for like a day straight, because that's the only way she knows how to shut me up on the rest of it. I'm not even sure why she hauled it all over here, except I guess she saw in my memories that I do that a lot."
"And she didn't tell any other Yeerks - anything. She didn't say that - that you can morph, that you've met an Andalite, that you've seen Visser Three, that - anything. Is she a she? I hadn't been assuming Yeerks had genders..."
aeskhyne
"Well, I've seen Visser Three again now. But no, nothing, she hasn't said a word. I mean, nobody's looking to her to spy on me, you know? And - I don't know, she feels like a she to me."