Hunting the Giants
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Last published Tue, Dec 3, 2019
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Life has certainly given those who take risks like these, the necessary battle scars. I didn't ask for this. But I knew what I was signing up for.
I finger a gash on my mask, where the light alloy was cut through.
Was I prepared? I never knew what would happen. Of anything. Back then I had done it with such little fear. Desperation is the mother of all bad decisions....
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Self-forgiveness is a hard thing.
In a time where superheros and vigilantés are hunted instead of criminals and the corrupt by the goverment, bountyhunters brave enough to take on the super- and incredible beings rise.
Pacifia joins their ranks in an effort not to starve and to get away from her invisible past , where she is almost always helpless and only noticed for the wrong reasons.
But after she gets to know one of her targets, she realises that having a thick skin is not the same as self-forgiveness.
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