A Leap of Faith (Part 2)

Chapter 365 - Reign Enters The Town

After a little while, Reign eventually makes her way into this town, and as she does, she can immediately tell this isn't some sort of town which is evidence of there being further towns nearby, with even more life than this town. This town very much looks like a small town, in the middle of the desert, where people who want to live a life like this, can life a simple, normal life. It is very likely that a few hundred years ago this town was probably one of those stereotypical desert towns that you may see in a movie, with there being a long street, with various stores on it, then a saloon at one end of the street, on the corner or something. There are still remnants of the town being like that, with the layout of how it is structured, but instead of there being stores all along the main street, there are just normal looking houses, with trees, and grass, which clearly is watered from some form of irrigation system, as obviously this town, in the middle of the desert, doesn't get much rain all year long, certainly not enough to maintain grass like this. The houses themselves though, they look very modern, like they have been built within the last 20 years or so, so they are certainly not houses which have been converted from the old western wooden house structures that were likely originally built here. Then, another difference from how this town may have looked a few hundred years ago, is the main street of the town actually is tarmacked, and isn't just a gravel or dirt road. However, a lot of sand does cover up large parts of the tarmac, obviously from where it's been blown by the wind. The town also has a few streets that verge off from this main street, which have other houses on it and everything, then Reign can see that this main street just goes off into the distance, outside of town, in two different directions, for what looks like miles and miles on end. Reign cannot see where the roads go to specifically, as they just disappear off into the horizon. All in all, Reign estimates that this town probably has the population of around 200 – 300 people. So, certainly not the smallest town in America, but nowhere near a big enough town. Everybody likely knows everybody in this town.

Reign now continues to slowly walk into the town, and as she does, she keeps thinking about the fact that as this town is so small, everyone likely knows one another, which also means for her, specifically, everyone will know she is a stranger from out of town. Reign then worries that if people realise this, and ask too many questions, that could just lead to issues for her, as then word might spread, and sooner or later Leviathan or Supergirl and her friends will hear and find her. Usually in a situation like this, Reign might just deal with everything by violence, with anyone who sees her quickly being killed, so no one will be left alive to actually give a description of her, or what happened. However, Reign is all too aware that she really cannot afford to do something like that in her current state. Not only because a trail of bodies in a town in the middle of a desert would really be a big red flag for Supergirl and Leviathan to get on her tail, but also because Reign has no idea how confident she can be in here powers currently. Reign doesn't know if she will be able to fight off several humans at once, as even if she is a superior fighter, without her powers it's not like she would be able to defeat 20 different humans all charging at her. The sheer numbers would overwhelm her. Then, on top of that, from information that Reign has in her mind, due to her still having most of the knowledge that Samanatha Arias had, Reign is very aware that this sort of town, in this sort of part of America, is likely the ideal type of town where most of the residence are armed to their teeth with guns, be it for protection from other humans, due to a lack of law enforcement, or for protection from any wild animals that maybe roam the desert, and might be able to cause a lot of harm if they enter the town. Again, usually a gun, or even multiple guns, is not something that would phase Reign whatsoever, but with her powers having a big question mark over them, Reign isn't sure if a bullet would bounce off her at the moment, or even if they did, if bullets would continue to bounce off her, as her powers seem to very unstable, and unreliable. So, reign really doesn't want to test all this and find out if she is bullet proof or not by getting shot by some human, after getting into an altercation with them.