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As I stand there, looking at my dead enemy, my feelings fluctuate between elation and defeat. Kyle got what he deserved, but I’m too late to get the last piece of information that I need from the bastard.
I sit down on the ground to absorb it all.
I finally understand where that nagging feeling was coming from. I recognize what was familiar about Kyle’s intense focus. As he was thinking about getting rid of these scientists, his thought pattern was nearly identical to that of his victims’. He had the telltale signs of someone being Guided, signs I kept seeing inside the minds of the very people he had Pushed.
I didn’t recognize it for what it was because I’d been running on my outdated assumptions about the world. Assumptions like ‘you can’t Push a Pusher.’ Only, as evidenced by Kyl
