Interlude 10.x II

10.x (Interlude; Tattletale) is the tenth chapter and first interlude of Polarize. Tattletale tracks March, watches the Wardens return, gets hacked by Kenzie, watches the Heartbroken “torture” Aiden, and attends a villain meeting.

Major Events

 * Chicken Little gets a belated birthday present.

Characters
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The Undersiders

 * Tattletale
 * Chicken Little
 * Giant Eagle
 * Snuff
 * Fish
 * Bryce Kiley?
 * Jaw
 * Bitters
 * Siemens
 * Kirby
 * Other mercenaries
 * The Needlepoints
 * Foil
 * Parian
 * The Heartbroken
 * Samuel Vasil
 * Chastity Vasil
 * Juliette Vasil
 * Roman Vasil
 * Aroa Vasil
 * Florence Vasil
 * Nicholas
 * Amias Vasil
 * Candy Vasil
 * Darlene Vasil
 * Rachel (mentioned)
 * Imp (mentioned)
 * Taylor (mentioned)
 * Alec (mentioned)

Palanquin

 * Faultline
 * A non-case 53 dork

The Wardens/PRTCJ

 * Weld
 * Laserdream
 * Cinereal (named)
 * Golem (named)
 * Tallboy (named)
 * Rocketround (named)
 * Typhlosis (named)
 * Vista (named)
 * Stank Bank (named)
 * Valkyrie (mentioned)

Breakthrough

 * Victoria Dallon
 * Sveta Karelia
 * Lookout (indirectly)

Organized Villains

 * Little Midas
 * Bitter Pill
 * Bluestocking

Mentioned

 * March
 * The Number Man
 * Dido
 * Semiramis
 * Sleeper
 * Machine Army
 * Endbringers
 * The Simurgh
 * Rex
 * Epeios
 * Coil
 * Coil's snipers
 * Two cape hunters
 * Prancer
 * PRT
 * The Red Queen
 * Teacher
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Trivia

 * Tattletale uses the phrase "fucking tinkers," previously used by Taylor and popularized as a meme in the Parahumans fandom.
 * This chapter also alludes to Coil's snipers, another fandom meme.
 * Aiden receives a Haast's eagle from another Earth, a bird which went extinct around 1400 CE in the real world due to human interference.
 * Ward's official table of contents lists this chapter's PoV character as "Tats".