#hive quote

[theanomily]

"I am curious," H.I.V.E.mind said. "Is it normal for friends to attempt to cause each other emotional discomfort in this way?"

-H.I.V.E.mind, Zero Hour.

First of all, this quote is one of the many reasons that I love him. I don't know why.

Second, is that if he were a human but with the exact same personality, a lot of assholes would beat him up, which is kinda sad.

[theanomily]

"So they finally put you out to pasture, did they?" Raven asked as she walked up behind him.

"Natalya!" the white-haired man said, turning and engulfing her in a bear hug.

"Hello, Esteban," Raven said. He took her by both shoulders and examined her at arm’s length.

"Let me look at you," he said with a broad smile. "Still just as beautiful as ever. Have you found yourself a good man yet?"

"It’s not high on my list of priorities," Raven said, glancing around at the faces in the crowd.

"Not to worry, there is still time, you are still young."

"Not that young any more," Raven said. "It’s a long time since Cuba."

"Ah yes, good times." He laughed. "They still haven’t rebuilt that dam, you know."

"So you’re retired now, I hear," Raven said.

"As much as people like us can ever retire from this damned game," Esteban replied with a slight smile. "It gets in the blood, you know." He turned and looked up at the enormous sculpture of Christ. "It’s beautiful, isn’t it? You know there’s even a small chapel in the base of the statue, should you feel the need to attend confession."

"You know I’m not a believer. Besides . . . I’m not the one with something to confess, am I, Esteban? You said you had information for me," Raven said with a frown, "but that was a lie, wasn’t it?"

"Natalya, what do you mean?" he asked, a hint of uncertainty in his voice.

"I really thought I could trust you, after everything we have been through together, but the fact that there are six armed men, who are not as well trained as they think they are, evenly spaced in the crowd around us tells me otherwise," she said, looking down at the city below.

Moral of the story: don't have friends!

Also, if Walden doesn't cover what happened in Cuba if he finishes this series, I am going to scream.

Plus, Raven really needs to have friends of her own age! I swear everyone she knows is white haired, retired, not as young as they seem etc.

One day, these students will make a comment when she announces she's going to see an accomplice.

"What? Are we going to a pensioners home?"

And Raven would be like "you little bitch. How could I have not seen this coming?"

[theanomily]

"Was that a Raven joke? I can never tell."

-Otto Malpense, Aftershock.

Same here, Otto. Same here.

[theanomily]

"It's quiet..." Franz said.

"If you say 'too quiet' now, I'll never speak to you again," Nigel said quickly.

[theanomily]

"I’ve received word from other members of the new ruling council," Nero said as Raven sat down. "There were assassination attempts on several of them at exactly the time that we were attacked in London. Two were successful. Jacobs and Milton are dead."

"Damn it," Raven said softly. "Why did we not see this coming?"

As much as I absolutely love Raven, in this moment she just annoys me because how the fuck did you NOT see it coming?

It was like a giant neon flashing sign right in front of your face. Eh, maybe Raven's hyperopic.

[theanomily]

"Missing you already," Otto said as Shelby hurried after Laura. "Or it might just be stomach cramps, it’s hard to tell, to be honest."

-Otto Malpense, Aftershock.

I know this is a joke but generally when someone misses someone else, they are described as 'heavy hearted' or stuff like that, which is located in the chest. I for one have never heard the stomach being involved before- that's typically mentioned with anxiousness or anxiety.

Now this mistake could be because of five things:

1. Mark Walden made a mistake (although I doubt that very much).

2. Otto made a mistake (again, unlikely because of his computer brain).

3. I have made a mistake.

4. Otto is a clone. He is engineered. In the 21st century, cloning isn't around yet and Overlord was coded in the 20th so it's even less likely he already knew how to perfectly clone a human meaning he has to rely on the stupid apes aka humans. How sad. So there is room for flaws and, who knows, Otto might get something resembling stomach cramps when he misses people.

5. He is anxious when Shelby isn't around (I don't know why, maybe because nothing's really happened to her in the series and so she's bound to be next) but he will never admit that to anyone. Missing her gives others less ammunition because everyone misses their friends from time to time, right? He convinces himself that he does in fact miss her and so he slips up right at that moment as he made the joke.

[theanomily]

"If this is what being a member of this organization has come to mean, then it may very well be something that I, for one, no longer want to be a part of."

"Choose your next words very carefully, Max," Darkdoom said slowly.

"How dare you threaten me?" Nero said angrily, standing up. "Do I really need to tell you who you’re starting to sound like?"

(Rogue)

Two points here:

1. The "how dare you" from Nero never fails to amuse me. Here we have one of the most powerful men on Earth resorting to a "how dare you".

2. I like the fact that they fell out to the point where Diabolus threatened to fire Max. That would put Max in a very bad situation indeed to be suddenly without the resorces of G.L.O.V.E. Additionally, they both knew the Furan's were alive and that it would give them a good opportunity to strike against H.I.V.E. Quite a few books I've read have absolutely no arguments between allies- if they do, it's certainly not enough to perhaps lead to one's ultimate downfall and it annoys me to no end because that is plain unrealistic.

So even though Walden had Penny say OMG, he did good.

Plus, there's a great set up for Penny going against Otto and crew- maybe even H.I.V.E. should Walden ever get to it.

[theanomily]

"Come on, cadela," Rafael spat, drawing his own twin machetes from their scabbards on his belt, as Raven walked up to him. "Let’s dance."

"No," Raven said, her blades singing as they flashed through the air in a blur, "let’s not."

Yes, I know 'bitch' is another word for 'female dog' but imagine the same scene with Rafael calling Raven a literal female dog.

Raven: actually, the name's corvo, someone said it just a few seconds earlier... [according to google translate, it means crow, but it's google translate so whatever].

Another thing this proves is that no matter how villainous people may be in this series, they never, ever swear in English in front of the kids. With exception of Max, of course, but we all know he is evil personified. (Yeah, right).