Secret Origins by James Riley

Author:James Riley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

CHAPTER 27

Owen reread the panels of Charm beating up on the banana over and over again. He couldn’t stop grinning, in spite of his rotten luck. Of course he was stuck out here instead of hanging out with Charm. She even confirmed that she thought he was Kiel, so that was totally an opening to tell her the truth!

At least this way he got to enjoy the banana scene as much as he wanted. So that was something.

Sure, he could explain everything right now, put the thoughts directly in her head. Tell her that he hadn’t been Kiel and really was Owen. That he’d saved her in the last book, and that he’d missed her ever since.

She’d be mad, but she’d hopefully understand eventually. But then a strange thought occurred to him.

If she was mad, then couldn’t he just cross that thought out, and make her happy about it all?

What? No! What was he thinking, changing what someone thought? This was Nobody’s whole point. Besides, he couldn’t just rewrite Charm’s thoughts or emotions that way. It was messed up to even consider it!

No one should have that much power over someone, fictional or nonfictional. It wasn’t right.

Owen walked over to the next page, hoping that things in Jupiter City could take his mind off of things with Charm. The following panels had them interrogating the banana on a roof while holding him by his hands out over the edge, which Gwen did not seem happy about. But at least they were still safe, with no shadows anywhere yet.

That was good, because the next page had a large MEANWHILE . . . at the top in a caption box, and things changed dramatically. Everything on the page was dark, creepy, and hard to make out, like all the color was missing. And the same all-black panel went by a few times, like nothing was happening, until finally—

“I know you’re there,” said a word balloon. “You’re not as much a shadow as you think.”

Um, who was that talking? Wasn’t this Bethany’s story? He leaned back, checking to make sure he hadn’t missed the sun going out or something in the last panel with his friends, but they were fine. So who was this? And what was with all the creepiness?

Another two panels of nothing went by, and then: “What you’re doing is wrong,” said a word balloon in the same spot. “I don’t care what Mason did to you to make you this way. This isn’t how you were meant to be.”

Two more panels of nothing ended the page, so Owen moved to the next and almost shrieked.

Staring out at him were two bloodred eyes in the middle of a shadow-covered face, taking up the entire page.

“You have no idea what I’m meant for,” the Dark said in white letters on a black word balloon, a light from above having snapped on to illuminate the monster. “This city destroyed me, but from my ashes a new world shall rise!”

Owen shivered, then quickly

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