I wanted to correct you that they're in college so adults.. then i realized that 18 is still technically a teenager (in the teen years aging) and an adult.. and i only commented this because through this comment... today i realized i guess?

I think she has the determination to pull it off though. The solution to the campus feels more like a group project than a solo test, but I am prepared to be wrong on this. If you wanna go first to get a feel for things it makes sense but i think Maria has a good chance at this.

She mentions it at the start of the awkward family dinner update.

No! Not you. Get the other one, that actually managed to do something when she got down the hall. It's not selfish, it's smart. I get you have to at least suggest yourself, but let her step in as soon as she offers and only do a token protest. Then watch from the sidelines.. don't help just watch.

Don't blame yourself, its still totally possible he would have failed without the attempted help and the help may not be why he failed. You can't know if that trial was supposed to be solo or not, this trial you know in advanced it has to be solo (though you could probably still watch from tje doorway and offer moral support).This guy may have to do the work himself, but you can still arm with knowledge and ammunition to use.

Last time shr helped during a trial, a student drowned in an inch of water.

The direction she was pulled caused her head to hit a pipe, she bounced to the opposite wall and found safety. Though because the grip slipped i did wonder if flickerboy had tried one last attempt to grab her and she just thought it was the steam.

I don't think it intended to help, i think two different predators got into a fight over food and rhe prey escaped.

I guess never dreaming again is better than being killed by your dreams.

I would be more willing to visit the campground than the campus, but thats because they are predictable and survivable and kate made sure of it even before her journey began.

The campus.. I don't want to visit because it seems dangerous as going into an enclosure at the zoo. You may be smart, you may be lucky, or you may be lunch. Ashley has so far been a mix of lucky and smart and with luck her experience may make her smarter and luckier.

Given what laundry lady said.. I almost wonder if ashley is more a samwise gamgee than a frodo baggins. She's not here to be the hero, she's here to force someone else to be the hero. Grayson? Cassie? Her friend that led the former rainchasers?

I remember that but not which chapter, I think it was in one of the first two books though. I also remember beau saying (in frustration) to Kate that he doesn't know everything (in reference to the other inbumans on the campground). That could just be his personal experience that it hurts, and maybe a few others on the campground confirmed it (an ally of beau's).

This is a whole new setting with different types of inhuman developed in a different environment than a campground. There may be some that are hurt by being in proximity to humans, but i don't think all will. I especially don't think the pain would apply to laundrybitch because she is more social in nature, most of the others weve seen so far are just hunting. Where as the devil and laundrybitch are more interaction based. (I don't think either can claim a victim if their target happens to behave well.)

I was thinking it was more that the things on the campground didn't get exposed as much to humans, the woods tend to be an isolated "get away from people" camping experience. As well as less interaction with humans.

Where as a college is constantly occupied (even just a little) and a time to explore, experiment, learn, and discover. So they have been exposed to humans more and have more immunity.

I wonder if the scratcher is like a punishment for staying up late. I don't think you can convince all of campus to go to bed on time, but i also think it only goes after those that feel guilty for staying up late because the last victim became the scratcher (or it became him..) and you said it was like a grasshopper.. but Pinocchio conscious was a cricket (not too dissimilar)..