However, something happened when they brought William into the daylight. He began to transform, with some of his skin stretching and his eyes turning dark. “William, are you OK?” SpiderGirl asked as she and Ninja Talon let go.
“You should have listened to me!” William said in a deeper voice. He then turned against her and sent her flying.
She caught herself with webbing. “Ow! Run Talon!”
Ninja Talon didn’t have to be told twice. She dashed to another tree, but William came after her. “William, what are you doing?” she asked.
“Get out of here!” William said as he approached her.
She put herself in a defensive stance, ready to defend herself if need be.
However, whatever effect the daylight had on him, increased his speed, and she found herself struggling.
SpiderGirl tried to web him up, but he broke the webbing, and so, William knocked Ninja Talon over before bolting from the yard.
SpiderGirl was at Talon’s side in an instant. “Are you OK?”
“Ow! I think I sprained something.”
“I’ll get you to the hospital. I’ll help you change somewhere.”
“Anywhere would be fine. Just not here,” Ninja Talon said.
They headed directly to Cedars of Lawndale from the Morris’s, with Ninja Talon changing to the usual Brittany on the hospital roof. “But now William is on the loose,” Brittany said.
“I’ll look for him afterwards as well as the Shadow or Dafoanairi.”
“I think Dafoanairi may be a liability. You may need to take a risk with the Enigma.”
“I’ll consider it, but I’ll sooner find Peterson, but she might not be on duty as she was on this morning,” SpiderGirl said. “But first I’ll call Ashley-Amber.”
“Thanks.”
“SpiderGirl?” One of the orderlies asked, when she brought Brittany into the ER.
“I found Brittany somewhere,” SpiderGirl said.
“I was running and slipped,” Brittany said.
“I see. It will be an hour before the X-Ray machine is available,” the orderly said.
“I can wait,” Brittany said.
“I’m heading out now,” SpiderGirl said.
“Thanks, Spidey. See you later.”
It was less than 10 minutes before Ashley-Amber arrived, as SpiderGirl had called her on her cell phone from one of the public phones at the hospital.
“Your Brittany’s next of kin?” the orderly asked.
“Her stepmother,” Ashley-Amber said. “Her father is on business out of town.”
“Got it.”
“What happened, Brittany?” Ashley-Amber asked in concern.
“I was running and I slipped, and SpiderGirl happened to be nearby.”
“You’re usually so careful. Were you thinking about Kevin?”
Brittany had told Ashley-Amber about the breakup and the reasons for it before heading to Quinn’s party. “That wasn’t it. Probably the changes in my life, besides the break up.”
“Oh,” Ashley Amber said. “You know, ‘Break a leg’, isn’t literal.”
“Of course.”
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