Editing Witness (section)

==History==
===Background===
When Tattletale was momentarily grabbed by Echidna, Echidna created a clone that she held back inside her.<ref name="19.MI">[[Missing Interlude]]</ref><ref name="19.MIc1">Hmm. Bummer to get this feedback.<br/><br/>It wasn’t stuck on at the last minute, though. I did have the notion that a Tattletale clone was created from the moment I described Tattletale covered in vomit partway through the opening of the arc.<br/><br/>I wasn’t 100% satisfied with this chapter as I was writing it (see above mention of distractions, other appointments; they didn’t help), but I’d promised it and I’d already invested the time to get three-quarters of the way through writing it.<br/><br/>In the end, I opted to include it because it tied up loose ends (What happened to Vista & Shatterbird, the direction Weld’s people took) and also that it kept Weld’s team on the map with a degree of conflict/connection to the main plot.<br/><br/>If people are that unsatisfied with it, though, I could scrap it. We pretend it never happened, I figure out another way to involve that group, and it doesn’t count as a donation chapter written (ie. I write another in a future week to make up for this one not staying up). - [https://web.archive.org/web/20130817130651/http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/interlude-19-donation-bonus-2/#comment-12788 Comment by Wildbow] on the [[Missing Interlude]]</ref> As a result of being "cooked" for too long, she was severely deformed. She was released when Echidna was briefly trapped underground by the detonation of [[Coil]]'s base.

===[[Battle against Echidna]]===
After being released from inside Echidna, she met [[Shatterbird]], who was trapped underground as well. Making use of her power to manipulate the villain, she persuaded her to leave her alive and protect them both from falling masonry. She then tormented her until [[Vista]] found them both underneath the rubble.

She prompted Vista to kill Shatterbird and help her escape, then - realizing the [[battle against Echidna]] was over, pretended to be a [[Case 53]] and talked her way into the [[Irregulars]].

===[[Ward]]===
A character by the name of Witness was mentioned by [[Sveta Karelia]] to be among the list of Case 53's who had been wronged by [[Cauldron]].<ref>[[Radiation 18.3]]</ref> Witness' appearance is confirmed later by [[Egg]] and [[Weld]].<ref name="bighead"/> However, it is unknown how much it is Witness from the [[Missing Interlude]].