A moment later I was in my car
driving away. It was extremely difficult
not to run the red light and then even more so not to floor it when the green
appeared. All this time I was working
for some new evil and I had no clue.
Deep down it felt like a game I was playing and when it turned out to be
real….
What
was I supposed to do now? The jungles of
Peru did sound awfully inviting but I knew I couldn’t go. I didn’t make nearly enough money from this
job to afford the plane ticket there and my mother might miss me. I passed light after light and saw countless
people on the streets and in their cars.
My home awaited me, but even its safety and warm bed was not enough to
shake the uneasy feeling I had. I
knew. I knew something that others
didn’t and for some reason I walked away with it. These people I passed were not fortunate
enough to know that an evil was lurking among them waiting to rise.
I
could, as Kent hinted, live in ignorance claiming plausible deniability, but it
wouldn’t be true. When the next day came
and I didn’t show up for work, they would know.
Would they search me out? I felt
very strongly that they would. Was my
security worth more that those of the hundreds of nameless people I passed
every day?
No. I pulled into my driveway but continued to
sit in my car. Maybe I wasn’t strong, or
special or even very bright, but I did have something others didn’t. I had knowledge. This was it.
I knew what I had to do. I would
stop these guys. I didn’t know how I
would do it or even if it was possible, but I couldn’t live with myself if I
didn’t try.
I
laughed out loud as my mind ran wild with pictures of superheroes and then
ended with me. Heroes are born of
necessity and they all start somewhere.
Maybe now I could get my yellow coat.
The
End
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