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Slender looks in the direction of the regular conscripts, beckons over the two nearest her, “get him back on his feet and get him into the Asylum. And get his leg fixed, don’t make it worse! We don’t have enough strong men as it is, and this idiot might actually come in useful … one day!”
She looks at MickeyWarr, who’s now sitting on the ground, struggling to take off one of his boots.
“I could have killed you!” she says, “I don’t know why I didn’t! Any of the others would have!”
As she says that, the sword in her right hand is drawn back, but not returned to its scabbard. To everybody it looks like she could be poised and ready to lunge.
At the same time she’s cautiously gesturing with her left hand. It’s done in an instant, and she hopes that nobody other than MickeyWarr saw it.
With a flat palm facing the ground, all the fingers held together and extended forward, the wrist barely moved but the tips of the fingers did, moving sharply to the left as if to say “cancel”.
The wavelengths are crowded with too many thoughts. The frenzy to recapture the recalcitrant vegetables is still in progress. Slender might be a demi-psychic, but she can’t distinguish one channel from another when there are dozens of people about, and lots of them are shouting. On a good day she can barely cope with two concurrent transmissions, three is her absolute limit. One to one is best, but even that requires a calm peaceful environment, not this chaos!
MickeyWarr is being lifted up by his armpits, and he’s assuming that the “cancel” gesture means “don’t take my words literally, I’m certainly not going to kill you.”
Unfortunately there’s no opportunity for either of them to do any more body language, or any spoken language, as MickeyWarr is half carried, and half dragged away towards the Asylum. It’s too risky for him to turn his head and look back.
Slender can’t detect MickeyWarr’s thought pattern at all. She watches for only a few seconds, and starts thinking to herself, “why did I do that? Is this wise? How can I leave? It’s
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