Gosh, I love Cybele’s jacket here. The little poofs on the ties. *chef’s kiss* Classic.
Pretty sure “Sparrow is a secret weapon” never showed up in the comments, not for all the years of reader speculation. Maybe if ND Stevenson’s She-Ra had aired by this point, someone would’ve guessed it was a reference. (If the new She-Ra was out by this point, I might’ve written this page so it clearly was a reference.)
Bennett: Okay, “Sid”, what can you tell me about these people? Any idea why they’re so important?
Cybele: The two women are humans. The guy is a Being. I guess the Cohens are studying him?
. . . and the brunette, I’ve seen before. She was with the protestors at one of your speeches. The Being might be the one who was with her. He looked different than he does today . . . but not as different as I do. She argued with your talking points then, too! And she was completely impervious to being told you weren’t racist! Even when she thought it was a black person saying so! It was very confusing!
. . .
Maybe she’s not human either! Maybe she’s some kind of SECRET SUPERWEAPON OF BRILLIANCE.
Bennett: You think that’s likely?
Cybele: I have no idea! But it sounds good, right?
Stevenson goes by ND or Nate these days
Hah, that gives you some idea of how long ago I queued this post! Fixed.
OMG, Sparrow is a secret weapon!
Sorry, I was apparently sleeping on the job.
More seriously, is this after the point where we’ve learned that Beings can’t hurt people? I think it is. That kind of makes me feel like I’d be more negligent if I didn’t notice something a bit weird that she could tell Patrick was the same being from before, but not that they’re Patrick.
That said, it’s possible she was paying more attention to Being specifics because he was incognito and previously Patrick was always definitively Patrick and she didn’t feel like it was likely for that to change.