The Arcana by Matt Hiebert

Author:Matt Hiebert
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: kaiju, superhero, superhero battles, superhero prose fiction, superhero horror, superhero books for adults
Published: 2015-01-20T14:07:21.536053+00:00

VI.

Back at the Enclave, both Borges and Stokes are waiting in the great room. They already know the story. It was thoroughly transmitted by an army of soldiers, helicopters, jet fighters and satellites.

“Well done,” Stokes says to Justice as Chariot’s disk evaporates.

“Thank you,” she answers. She would have sounded cocky, but her confidence was beyond that.

We haven’t slept in many hours and all of us head to our quarters to rest. The debriefing can wait.

Borges can’t though. He follows me into my room.

“Never,” he says. “To answer your unasked question: there has never been a Hand return with a hundred percent survival rate.”

I sit down on the foot of my bed, exhausted.

“I didn’t think so.”

Borges puts a cigarette in his mouth but doesn’t light it. He knows I hate them.

“Is it because she’s a kid?” he asks from behind the bobbing cigarette. “Can she use her power more efficiently because she’s not clouded or tarnished somehow?”

“I have no idea.” I lie back on my bed. There’s something different about this Justice and it’s not just her age. She accepted the change quicker than anyone I’ve ever seen, led us to a clean victory her first time out.

Borges paces my room and keeps talking. He is brainstorming, speculating, trying to make connections. His voice grows distant as I begin to fall asleep.

“Maybe it’s her mind -- her imagination. Maybe she’s more receptive to possibilities……”

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