My first night I was so physically and emotionally drained that I just slept for hours, my head not leaving the scratchy and highly questionable pillow. The next morning I awoke and sat trying to decide what to do. The first thing on my list was to find a job somewhere, except I didn't have a resume, any qualifications or a fresh change of clothes. My safest bet was some fast food restaurant so I grabbed my bag and set out in search of really anything that would pay.
I made my way through a street and a half, asking at essentially every shop or restaurant I came across until I found one that would take me. 'Patrick's tavern' was a small pub-like building with only 2 people working there, on the edge of a run down and incredibly grimy looking street, in the place you would expect a corner shop to be. I spent my days scrubbing bathrooms and tables and serving alcohol to underage teens and I would spend my nights looking for my sister and training. I had strings and photos and quotes strung up along the width of a wall in my motel room like something from a cop show, showing everything that could be related to Maria's disappearance and connecting them.
The job I had at Patrick's payed next to nothing but then so did the cost of my room. When I got to around the last 3 days of the month my money would run out and after the first few months of sleeping rough every few weeks, Georgette, the motel owner said it was okay for me to stay the last few days for free, as long as no one else needed the room (most of the time I was one of 2 people staying there so this never proved to be a problem). I lived off of Ramen noodles, breakfast bars from the almost-always-empty vending machine outside my room and tequila that I'd stolen from various petrol stations and corner shops.
It had been a year and a half since I'd left home that day and I was no closer to finding Maria than the police had been. Except for a name. A man who was rumoured to have witnessed Maria's supposed kidnapping had given a description matching that of a man who had been fired from the lab department of a high up tech company almost a decade ago. There was already a team of policemen investigating him and the allegations that he used his position in the company to illegally experiment on test subjects. Three people, around that same time, had gone missing and there were heaps of circumstantial evidence suggesting he had killed them. Dr Christian Sanborn of Smith&Taylor industries.
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Dark Heroes: chapter one
Fiksi Remaja'Growing up I always thought the concept of revenge was a bit melodramatic. Characters would spend the first half of the story looking for revenge and the other half hating themselves for getting it.' Kody has always loved superheroes but what will...
