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His mother had just gotten out of his sight, up through the clouds, but not so far that he couldn’t estimate where she was.

And then the shockwave hit.

It was like someone had dropped an SUV on his head. David must have fallen 1,000 feet before recovering his senses. He shook it off and then remembered his task at hand.

He shot up into the sky as fast as his ability allowed and ran right into the falling form of his mother.

She was naked, with a layer of black soot covering her now hairless body. He caught her, but had to roll with the impact to avoid being knocked out of the sky himself.

He couldn’t tell if she was breathing.

He reversed his energy and shot back toward the ground and Thunderbase.

It took him several of the longest minutes of his life to get there.

“Infirmary!” He screamed with his mind, hoping one or more of the Psi’s would pick it up. When he reached the tower, there were teams waiting.

He turned over his mother to the hands of the doctors and nurses who had saved his life not so long ago.

As he walked from the clinic he all but ran into his brother.

“Is she okay?” Mickey asked.

“I don’t know, kiddo,” The elder sibling said honestly, “but they are going to do all they can.”

Madame Mimic walked up. She had been one of the panel, and she tried hard to consol the boys. Her real name was Elizabeth Pelly and her power was that she could take the form of any organic being. She had toyed with the idea of appearing to the boys as their mother to bolster their spirits, but was wise enough to know it would not be appreaciated.

Jeremy ran up to the trio shouting, “Guys, you’ve got to see this!”

With less enthusiasm than their comrade, the pair left Madame Mimic and walked into the central bay.

There were dozens of Inheritors there, and they were all looking up through the open bay.

There, in the sky were 5 crossing rainbows stretching out to any horizon you cared to look at, and meeting at the point of the sky that David had just returned from.

The boys silently prayed that it was an omen of something beginning, and not the end of something important in their lives.