“So if we have to deal with that guy anyway, why not just walk past him?”
“Marie can make anyone who sees us forget about it as soon as it happens, but she needs to focus on one mind at a time. The tunnel should give her a lower chance of being overwhelmed, surprised, or surrounded than going through the school. She can’t cross the Sliver portal, however, so once we get there, she and the other Splinters will go upstairs to cause a distraction and mitigate the flow of reinforcements being sent down after us. Aldo will borrow a piece of her power to bring with us.”
Marie offered Aldo an encouraging wink.
“Can’t you just make them forget how to walk and talk?” I asked, remembering what Marie had done to the bat-winged parasite so she could pull it from under my skin. “Take them out of the
