We shouldn't be here

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'We are not supposed to be heros we are supposed to be teenagers still trying to figure out who we are. We should be going to parties and drinking and looking at colleges not training and fighting villains and saving the world but we are because we need to because if we don't no one will. Because the world needs saving. After this is over we won't be able to go back, we won't be able to pretend to be a normal teenagers because we are not. I am telling you this so you know now there is still time to back out but very little. It is your choice and I understand no matter what you choose.' I say to the crowd assembled before me there is silence a long stretch of silence before Jessica, a tall brown haired girl with freckles steps up and fills it 'I am not leaving the council made this personal when they killed Trina (her little sister only 5 years old at the time) there is no turning back for me' she comes and stands next to me facing her peers. Soon everybody is stepping up and standing with me. I am shocked by their faith in me and there conviction to keep fighting. 'We stand with you,' says Jessica 'we trust that you will lead us to victory against the council and fix the things that they have done'

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