Black as Day (ON HIATUS)

Chapter 12.5

Just a short scene where she's thinking and recalling some important pieces of info.

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My head was still reeling from this sudden realization as Tallah lead me down the hall. All the puzzle pieces were fitting together. Everything was starting to make sense!

There had been nothing strange about my violent Phasing. That happened all the time to hundreds of people around the world. But, I must have been kidnapped by Avery because she had guessed I would develop powers. I thought back to when I had been listening to Avery's conversation. My hearing had been amplified so much, I now realized that I'd heard them through the walls! And when I'd escaped from the facility- the orange light that had broken the wall, and the numbers in my head? Those must have been my powers, too.

And again, in the hospital, when I'd attacked the guards. It had looked like the room was filled with fire, all coming from me.

But.... I recalled what Tallah had said. That this was the reason I was in here. Did this mean that everybody in this place had powers too? It must, else what other reason could Avery have to kidnap me, and possibly others. The image of Mark with coffee dripping down his face popped into my head. No way he wouldn't have been hurt, any regular person would have been burned! That must have something to do with his abilities.

I hadn't forgotten about when I'd gotten rescued, too. I remembered my trip through the forest in stasis, feeling like I had been floating on nothing. That hadn't been anything like being on a hoverboard. And the way that they had been able to lock my body was completely unnatural. I wondered who my two rescuers were.

What about Nima's genius-like mind? She was so little, and yet most likely smarter then I could ever hope to become. She told me that she had Phased early. Extremely early. Why would that happen? Is it a defect, or just extremely rare?

I wonder... did every person have powers specific to them? As superheroes all had different specialties, were we also unique in our own?

I was teeming with questions, but Tallah refused to answer any until we got to wherever she was taking me. The labs, she'd said. Hopefully it would be unlike Avery's, and I would finally get some answers. My pace unconsciously quickened.

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Hahaha, yas beitchez two updates in two days. Sorry about the long wait, trust me when I say I've had a metric tonne of homework.

I know this chapter was more of a half chapter, but I wanted some time just to have her thinking without being interrupted. Also, because I forgot to say something in the last one.