Okay.
If you don't want to kill her in full daylight then lets wait halfway between the parlor and the prison.
It wuld waste our chance to hurt her with the car, but at least we get our fight.
I absolutly hate the idea of dancing around her any longer.
Edit: She might kill a bunch of paramedics and cops though, if she goes through the tattoo parlor. Not like she has any reason to care.
Haste isnt speed. Impatience often just makes shit worse.
The reason we're here, now, in this situation where we're trying to juggle Cindy, Lydia and an incoming Kattrin, was because the majority of voters allowed impatience to make them skip a preliminary phone call to Lydia before they Crows of Eyes'd Cindy's location.
She does have plenty of reason to care.
Kinda hard to run a magic ritual if you're the subject of a manhunt by every LEO in Cook County.
It's Chicago. Security cameras are fairly common; she literally used them to frame Dresden.
Command Kattrin's car to crash itself now, causing at least a delay. Use the delay to get Lydia and Cindy to safety. Locate Kattrin later using Gard or one of Kattrin's thralls as the focus of the Crown. Ambush her on our own terms.
I dont think we can afford to lose track of Kattrin now.
If she gets out and steals a car, or even just flags down a taxi, she's in the wind and we're blind.
We don't necessarily need to crash the car nearby. Doing it anywhere along its route could work for our purposes, since that would at the very least delay Katrina's arrival here, giving us time to get Cindy clear and possibly even find Lydia, if she's still below ground.
Depending on the route, we might even be able to have Black Rider dump Katrina and her passenger off a bridge.
We would be losing Black Rider as a spy and potential saboteur, but we should still have the GPS data from him that would let us know where he's been since Katrina left Matthews' house. There are pretty good odds that wherever she just left from is where we need to go. She really shouldn't have any reasonable suspicion that we were spying on her, either, even after Black Rider crashes. From her POV and prior experience, it would be much more likely that she or the car had been targeted thaumaturgically with a curse or magical attack of some kind.
Its a hundred and twenty thousand dollar Mercedes AMG.
The passive safety measures in the car design of a car that expensive would keep a lot of normals alive in car accidents, let alone a Norse demigod necromancer. I honestly wouldnt expect her to take any damage even with the airbags disabled.
And once she's out of the car, she's in the wind.
She kidnapped Cindy, and she has her grandfather. She has their hair. Dresden tracks people with hairs from their head; its a common enough technique that Binder shaved his head to get rid of Dresden's ability to follow him.
Im beginning to think we need to hand Cindy off to Hendricks and retrace our steps underground.
Well depends on how quickly emergency get here right? Gonna be frank, I can easily see 911 not really responding quickly to reports of gun violence in a lower income primarily black neighborhood. Not to mention this culture tends to be one where you don't even tell the cops something as basic as the sun is bright when questioned.
Of course we'd get a ton of attention in general and civilians recording, but I assume the Maquerade has ways of dealing since video phones and camcorders have been a thing for a whole now.
Urban response time for EMS is less than 14 minutes. Usually 7-10 minutes IIRC.
We called EMS for a scene with an AK and sawnoff thirty minutes ago.
The cops are going to be there.
