"You've been running a perfect operation," Rex said, and his voice was still carrying the specific quality it had when the surface level was steady and what was underneath it was not. "Every variable accounted for and every output calibrated..."
"You've never been wrong, and because you've never been wrong, you've decided that the things that don't fit your operational model aren't relevant."
"Fuck all of that useless information because we're going to do this..."
"...my FUCKING WAY!"
Gelion's slime form extended three limbs simultaneously, which were not arms exactly but functioned as arms at the point of impact. The primordial-class working ran through all three of them and hit Rex's telekinetic field from three directions at once.
Rex let two of them pass so they could read the frequency.
