Supernova: Premiere Issue

A drone's camera caught her in mid-flight approaching King Tower, and the owner had sold the eight seconds of video to a news outlet. Now Laurel got to watch herself in flight, the first time she'd ever done so.

She looked ridiculous. Humans weren't built for flight, and rocketing through the air on beams of energy didn't look at all like the standard superheroic pose of flying flat. Instead she looked like a downhill skier leaning into a curve, cape flaring behind her as she balanced on twin beams of energy. At least the beams were impressive, all intense blue Cherenkov and bremsstrahlung radiations as the highly charged pions burnt through the air.

"For this they cancelled classes?" Laurel's normal speaking voice was down towards the deeper end of her contralto range, with just a bit of a burr.

 

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