Editing Speck 30.4

{{infobox chapter
| book       = [[Speck]]
| number     = 30.4
| dateposted = 22 October 2013
| link       = https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/speck-30-4/
| previous   = [[Speck 30.3]]
| next       = [[Speck 30.5]]
}}'''Speck 30.4''' is the fourth chapter of [[Speck]]. Dragon rises to confront Khepri, and they fight, drones against swarm. Dragon fakes her death and temporarily breaks Khepri's resolve, but the godling comes through. She gathers more capes, from the [[Birdcage]], [[Earth Shin]], and others. She fights the Faerie Queen, and wins.

==Plot==
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In her apothesis into Khepri Taylor finds she has lost her ability to understand language.

Thinking that she had killed her friend, and her substitute mother figure Taylors resolve breaks and she vomits where she stands.

The young goddess subsumes the remains of the triumvirate, subsumed entire worlds of alternate Capes to add to her swarm, spy's on Sleeper and leaves him be, unable to spare the time and effort to recruit him.

==Major Events==
*The wall between Earth Shin and the rest of the Multiverse is breached.
**The capes there are conscripted by Khepri.
*Khepri does not try to recruit Sleeper.

==Characters==
{| class="CharTable"
! [[Heroes|{{color|white|Heroes}}]]
! [[Villain|{{color|white|Villains}}]]
! Others
|-
|
;[[The Protectorate]]
*[[Miss Militia]]
*[[Exalt]]
*[[Legend]]
----
;[[The Guild]]
*[[Dragon]]
*[[Defiant]]
|
;[[The Undersiders]]
*[[Tattletale]]
*[[Bitch]] {{M}}
*[[Imp]] {{M}}
*[[Grue]] {{M}}
----
;[[Dragonslayers]]
*[[Saint]] {{M}}
----
;Independent Villains
*[[Teacher]]
*[[Bonesaw]] {{M}}
*[[Sleeper]] {{D}}
*[[Glaistig Uaine]]
*[[Moord Nag]]
*[[Panacea]]
----
;[[Slaughterhouse Nine]]
*[[Mannequin]] {{C}}
*[[Damsel of Distress]] {{C}}
**[[Ashley Stillons II]]
**[[Damsel of Distress III]]
*[[Nighty Night]]
*[[Spawner]]
*[[Night Hag]] {{M}}
*[[Nyx]] {{M}}
*[[Crawler]] {{M}}
*[[Breed]] {{M}}
*[[Screamer]] {{M}}
----
;[[The Travelers]]
*[[Sundancer]]
*[[Genesis]]
*[[Ballistic]]
*[[Oliver]]
|
;[[Khepri]]
*[[Khepri]]
*[[Doormaker]]
*[[The Clairvoyant]]
----
;Civilians
*[[Emma Barnes]] {{M}}
*[[Annette Hebert]] {{M}}
----
;[[Entities]]
*[[Scion]]
----
;[[The Yàngbǎn]]
*[[Shén Yù]]
----
;[[Endbringers]]
*[[Leviathan]]
----
;[[Cauldron]]
*[[Pretender]]
*[[Alexandria]] {{M}}
*[[Contessa]]
*[[Eidolon]] {{S}}
----
;[[Parahuman Asylum]]
*[[Glory Girl]]
----
;Rogues
*[[Canary]]
----
;Others
*[[The Woman in Blue]] {{D}}
|-
|}

==Trivia==
*On November 2017, this chapter was edited slightly to remove the original ending line, which Wildbow said he "never liked". No other changes were made.<ref>Ah, I removed a line I never liked. - [https://redd.it/7exe8e Wildbow on Reddit about removing the line] "I turned my attention to Scion."</ref>

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