The story pt. 19

By: Cristian

The explosion I heard was from a blast behind me, it was a office building that I think I remembered was a hotel Caviot. I hope this wasn’t what I thought it was and a part of the bombings from the conversation I have overheard before. If this was the midnight squads doing, they were my enemy number 1. As I flew above the city once more, I could see smoke and terror going on below; but I knew it was my time to fly away as I saw the sun come up across the horizon. 

I flew immediately home to see if I could at least get a couple hours of sleep and try to make sense of all this. I don’t know why but mentally I didn’t feel alright. If it was one thing or another, my own personal doubts and the images of citizens hurt, and buildings blasted flew through my mind.  I was thinking it may be time for me to slow down and take a well needed break from all this hero work as it was starting to affect me. Maybe it was time to call it quits…..

But for the sake of the world I knew I couldn’t. I needed to stay strong and keep it all together. But I couldn’t do it alone; I needed help or as I read in my comic books before maybe I needed a sidekick?

As a loner and outcast I didn’t have many close friends. But I knew I needed to figure this out. Thinking back, maybe this was the vision/ warning I had before where my future self told me,  “You must learn to take hold and understand your power before it  becomes too great and takes control of you”. A sidekick or person I could talk to might help prevent this from ever happening. I feel I need to get myself together for the sake of the world. I needed to keep myself in check no matter what.

Especially now that I was The Author.

But who could I rely on to keep my secret?