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042 Charity Begins At Home

Author: Kaiser Ken

2023-05-26 22:37:59

James Colbert drove his Ferrari into the locality where the Ateliers lived. He parked it on a shadowy street corner. The sun had already set, and he looked furtively to ensure nobody noticed him.

James rechecked his phone to ensure he had read Carol's last message correctly. "Thanks for the help. I'm grateful," it said. That was perplexing.

Why would she thank him when their last meeting had ended so terribly? Was she being sarcastic? That was definitely not her style.

Only an hour back, James h

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321 Two Graves
Kate Harper woke up in a bed at Springfield General with her hip bolted together under thick bandages.Victor Cromwell sat in a plastic chair beside the bed, reading a folder.The young woman stared at him. She was alive? She was home in Springfield? How?The last thing she remembered was lying on her back on a Sparta street, watching people die.Her face crumpled.Victor noticed her waking up and approached."The sleeping beauty wakes up."She pushed herself up, threw her arms around Victor's neck and burst into tears.The Mayor went stiff for a second. Then his hand came up and patted her back, twice, awkwardly."Your subordinates are outside that door," he said. "What will they think if their leader is crying?"Kate laughed through her tears and clung to him until the shaking stopped."I don't care. It's so nice to see you again."Then she let go, and remembered.Sparta City. Sophia Baker. Charles Wheeler. Morgana.She had put on the Raven supersuit in the middle of Calloway Street
320 Reunion With Ex-wife
Morgana staggered back a step on the frozen street.Nobody alive knew that name. Nobody had spoken it aloud to her in a long time.Not only that, Victor Cromwell referred to her as the ex-wife."What did you call me?" she hissed."Carol," Victor said. "Carol Atelier."Her heart hammered against her ribs. It couldn't be.Her tall frame shrank. The long arms pulled back into her shoulders, and her height dropped a foot and a half in front of him.The grey creature skin split and peeled off her in strips, and the strips turned to ash before they touched the tarmac.The bone mask fell off her face and cracked in two on the road.Carol Atelier stood in the middle of Calloway Street in a long coat that was now far too big for her. Her chocolate-colored hair hung over her shoulders. Her dark-brown eyes were wet.She stared at the Mayor of Springfield in terror.How did this man know her name? Why was he calling her his ex-wife?Victor let the Cromwell face go.His features broke apart and ca
320 Two Choices
Calloway Street stank of burning rubber and blood, and the airfield fence stood two hundred yards away under its floodlights.Nobody on that road was going to reach it.Morgana walked towards the crowd, and a crushing, invisible pressure rolled out ahead of her.The first people it touched folded over and vomited onto the tarmac.Kate lay on her back where the impact had thrown her. It came down on her chest and pinned her there. Her supersuit gave a thin electronic whine and went dead around her.The last charge was gone, and the Raven's powers along with it. She was lying inside a useless superhero suit on a Sparta street."Please!" Kate forced the word out through her teeth. "Ma'am, please! These people are innocent. They saw nothing. They don't understand any of what happened here tonight. Let them go!"Morgana stopped walking.The bone mask turned towards the woman on the ground."You are polite, but your people have all seen something the world was not meant to see yet," Morgana
319 Insects
Calloway Street was four blocks of burning trucks and people flat on the tarmac when the woman straightened up out of the crater.She wore a long coat the colour of wet coal. The mask across her face was carved bone, white and polished, and it covered her from hairline to chin."You are wrecking my town," she said. Her voice came out of the mask filtered and flattened, like a radio caught between two stations.Sophia Baker turned around, still dragging half a Springfield guard off her barbs. Charles Wheeler lowered his fist.Kate stayed on one knee, her blood running warm into her boot from the hole in her hip. Dread sat in her chest like a swallowed stone.Who was this woman? Where did she land from?"Morgana," Sophia said, and the name travelled through the Springfield citizens in a wave of whispers. "You are the one who took this city on Thursday. The coup was yours.""It was.""Then we have no quarrel."Sophia's barbs retracted smoothly into her forearms with a sound like rope dra
318 Gratitude
Sophia Baker came up Calloway Street with a man's spine hanging from her right hand. It was what remained of Marek Voss.She dropped it on the tarmac and walked on without looking down.Charles Wheeler walked beside her. Blood covered the man from his hair to his boots, all of it splatters from other people.Behind the pair, the rebel army lay in pieces across the road. Entrails steamed in the cold air. One man dragged himself toward the shopfronts on two stumps, screaming for his mother."Who are they?" a man wailed from the middle of the crowd. "What are they?"Kate Harper knew both faces, and the knowledge put ice in her stomach.Sophia Baker sat at the top of Springfield's extermination list. The Puppetmaster had taken the woman apart four years ago and built her back out of something that was not bone, and Kate had read all two hundred pages of her file.Charles Wheeler was worse. Kate had heard him fight Roadkill on a construction platform eighty stories above Springfield.What
317 Raven Wings
The rocket left the tube with a noise like a door being torn off a house.Kate Harper had three seconds, and she was afraid in a way she had not been in two years.Eleven women stood shoulder to shoulder in its path. She knew the explosive capability of that warhead. All eleven of them would die in the blast.She could save them. The Raven could.Kate's nanofiber supersuit was folded inside the watch on her left wrist.But two helicopters were working the district, and every satellite over Sparta City had been watching this coup since nine o'clock.The whole world would learn Raven's true identity.Was there another way? There was not.She pressed the button.The watch opened along a seam nobody had ever seen. Black alloy ran up her arm and over the gown she had worn to the Emporium auction, and it closed over her face last.Kate Harper was gone. The Raven stood in the middle of Calloway Street, and a smooth steel mask hid her face.Four hundred people saw it happen, and for one secon

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