HEROES NEVER DIE

❝it could either be a fall or a flight, baby.❞

They say a hero never dies. They live forever and ever in everyone's memories.

Adira thinks you'll change your mind about that when you see supers die at the age of 16 and there is nothing more than than one small obituary for them in the papers.

Adira doesn't want to care about supers. She doesn't hate them, and she sure as hell doesn't worship them. She just wants to live her life, as normally as is possible in the hellhole that is Salvert City.

And she isn't super-like, she says, She's cowardly, she's lazy and she's selfish. She's scared of death. She gets drunk on power easily. She can't control her actions. She's hurt people before. That should be enough reasons why she should be away from all superpowers and all superheroes, like, forever.

So why do they keep following her everywhere she goes?

© irya kadlec, 2020