The cat saunters over, looks down at me, and meows. It sounds suspiciously like laughter.
I’m standing on the edge of a downtown parking garage, staring at a four-story gap. On the other side is a fire escape where, according to a slightly unreliable raccoon who seems to be my only informant, a cat is stuck. Not a civilian. Not a priceless artifact. A cat.
But that’s the thing about rookies. We don’t start with the world-ending meteors. We start with the small things. The things that prove we care more than we fear.
“Three… two… one… heroic stupidity,” I whisper.
Tomorrow, I’m buying better shoelaces. “Every hero starts at level one. The trick is surviving your own origin story.”
The cat saunters over, looks down at me, and meows. It sounds suspiciously like laughter.
I’m standing on the edge of a downtown parking garage, staring at a four-story gap. On the other side is a fire escape where, according to a slightly unreliable raccoon who seems to be my only informant, a cat is stuck. Not a civilian. Not a priceless artifact. A cat.
But that’s the thing about rookies. We don’t start with the world-ending meteors. We start with the small things. The things that prove we care more than we fear.
“Three… two… one… heroic stupidity,” I whisper.
Tomorrow, I’m buying better shoelaces. “Every hero starts at level one. The trick is surviving your own origin story.”
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