Chapter 60: Memorial
"Don’t let our mother watch!"
The moment Rhayra read these words from her brother’s lips, she changed her running direction and headed toward her mother.
But no matter how fast she ran, it felt like everything was in slow motion. Everyone moved in slow motion all the time, and she was no exception... This had been happening ever since she awakened her first Universal Speed Force ability...
At her current pace, she wouldn’t reach her mother in time. And she would eventually see what was about to happen. Rhayra looked up at the sky and realized that the golden man’s grip on her brother’s neck was about to kill him. Tears slowly welled in her eyes, and as she bit her lip in fury, a cracking sound was heard inside her.
She finally managed to run. But it was different from how she thought it would be. With her speed of thought, she just seemed to run and move at a normal speed. But then she realized that it wasn’t that she was slow; she was so fast that the whole world seemed to be paralyzed.
Reaching her mother, Rhayra slowed down and hugged her with extreme care as she slowly turned her face away from the sky...
But despite preventing her mother from looking, she still watched. For everyone watching, Rick’s brutal death was only a matter of seconds, but for her, it felt like an eternity... An eternity watching her brother being hanged to death... An eternity until his neck was broken, and another eternity as that golden man’s arm pierced his chest and let him fall from the sky like a piece of something disposable...
In that eternal moment that seemed never to end, Rhayra stared furiously and memorized everything she could about the man... His height, his face, his mannerisms, his strange uniform, and even every medal and detail he had... It might not be today, but she would get revenge on him for what he did here and for all the dead...
She assured herself that she could never forget his face. She kept looking, she needed to keep looking so that she would never forget herself. revenge... But at that moment, after throwing her brother’s body to the ground, the golden man turned toward her and smiled distortedly.
Rhayra hugged her mother tightly and tried to flee using her newfound speed, but the man appeared in front of her and froze her in place with his strange ability... Or was it fear that froze her?