Oh, absolutely, someone up the line who arranged this made a deeply disgusting "pest control" joke about it. The plausible deniability is absolutely a factor--the fact that only Robyn was affected makes it very hard to argue that this wasn't murder. However, rat poison? Rodenticide, in a PORT city? That's completely untraceable. It could have been literally anyone. Any kind of fancy or expensive (or, thankfully, deadlier/faster-working) poison would have been a lot easier to track down because there'd HAVE to be a money or paper trail somewhere. But rat poison? It's cheap and there were probably five hundred people in Mantle and Atlas who bought rat poison that day.
The best part about Robyn's growing political support base is that, as May just now realized and nearly strangled her for-she has NO IDEA. She doesn't realize she's a politician. I mean, she does NOW, but she's a street kid from the crater--there's a huge leap between acting as a subversive community organizer and thinking to yourself, "I should fill a formal political position" that, at this point in her timeline, she has literally never considered before.
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mylordshesacactus on Chapter 2 Mon 18 May 2020 08:22PM UTC
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