[It always seemed so innocent, starting out. You woke up, like always, had a bite to eat, got to work. Then it was lunch, and the sun as beating down outside the cool cave of the garage and you thought to yourself, oh! I'll walk down to the deli.
Such a fool.
It was complacency like that that'd led Kim to where she stood, transfixed, while the screams echoed through her, and she saw herself looking down on a city on fire, gravel rooftop crunching under her feet— her feet! And then she turned, looked up, and the world was metal and red eyes and the fire leapt down from those eyes like a living thing, like a hungry sunbeam that was beating down on her now, and the pain was magnificent, transfixing, burning up and down her spine like an electric charge.]
Oh god.
[Kim fell, and lay there in the gutter, trembling. What the hell was that? Her left arm went numb, and she lay there and retched against the memory of pain. Maybe she was dying. Maybe this was what a heart attack felt like.]
New Echo
Such a fool.
It was complacency like that that'd led Kim to where she stood, transfixed, while the screams echoed through her, and she saw herself looking down on a city on fire, gravel rooftop crunching under her feet— her feet! And then she turned, looked up, and the world was metal and red eyes and the fire leapt down from those eyes like a living thing, like a hungry sunbeam that was beating down on her now, and the pain was magnificent, transfixing, burning up and down her spine like an electric charge.]
Oh god.
[Kim fell, and lay there in the gutter, trembling. What the hell was that? Her left arm went numb, and she lay there and retched against the memory of pain. Maybe she was dying. Maybe this was what a heart attack felt like.]
Help. Eicgh! S-somebody…oh god.