She shakes her head, expression grim. "We'd have to know the right question to ask to know. Her power only expresses the future in probabilities. We know that if Jack escaped Brockton Bay, it would be 4/5 odds within two years, 1/1 odds before eight years. If he died, it would happen in 15 years. The first round of deaths will be at least a hundred million, group by group instead of simultaneous, 93% chance of zero survivors about a year after the event begins." That part is dry, a recitation of what Dinah told them, there in Coil's base, before begging for more drugs to ease the pain of prophecy.
"Jack himself probably can't do this. Spatial distortion powers, the edge of any blade he holds can stretch out to miles long. But he'll definitely go out and start recruiting to refill the Slaughterhouse Nine. It might be a new recruit. It might be someone who triggers because he targets them or their city, or just someone he makes snap - I've seen him do it, he's a genius at it. It might be he sets his sights on the Endbringers and riles them up enough. Or maybe it's just him and he goes through a second trigger event and gets that strong himself. We don't know. But now that he's escaped, we've definitely lost the chance at 15 years to plan."
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"Jack himself probably can't do this. Spatial distortion powers, the edge of any blade he holds can stretch out to miles long. But he'll definitely go out and start recruiting to refill the Slaughterhouse Nine. It might be a new recruit. It might be someone who triggers because he targets them or their city, or just someone he makes snap - I've seen him do it, he's a genius at it. It might be he sets his sights on the Endbringers and riles them up enough. Or maybe it's just him and he goes through a second trigger event and gets that strong himself. We don't know. But now that he's escaped, we've definitely lost the chance at 15 years to plan."