Chapter 25: Because I’m A Hero
Earlier that day...
Sky felt the hot water spray down her face as she stood beneath the shower. Everything was dark. Destiny, the bird that acted as her eyes, rested in his cage asleep, so at the moment she was totally blind.
She stood in the shower, collecting her thoughts. She wasn't sure when it had truly started, but she felt strangely empty. Actually, that wasn't true. She knew exactly why she had this feeling.
Hope Lauren.
As she rested under the shower's water, she couldn't help but picture that Hope girl in her mind. Destiny saw the world in ways humans couldn't. He was a bird after all. Because of that, she never really paid attention to how people truly looked. It was always off or wrong. That girl, though. She found herself thinking of her more and more.
The Lauren case was one she had been forced onto by her mother. When it was discovered how truly godlike her healing was, the Hero Branch practically forced her to sign up with them and join one of their sponsored teams. Now it was her job to heal hundreds of people. Day in, day out, again, and again, and again. Injury after injury, person after person. Blurry face after blurry face.
Ocean Empress enjoyed the attention she was getting from having a daughter that could heal. Powers that could heal yourself weren't that rare, but ones that could heal other people, especially on the level that hers could, were practically unheard of. Only the previous holder of the Lord of the Land and Life had been anywhere near as good as healing as she was. An impressive feat considering she herself was not a Lord.
Then again, her father was 'that' man, after all...
"Whatever. I shouldn't be thinking about this at all." She stepped out of the shower and began to dry herself off. She felt her teeth clench as the thought of that Hope girl returned to her. "It's not my fault that I couldn't heal her father. Me not being strong enough to cure the Dead Virus isn't my fault. I did the best I could."
The best she could. She had said the exact same thing as she did last time to Jane Lauren once more after her second attempt to heal Alexander Lauren failed.
She almost let out a sigh of relief when a loud buzz began to go off on the nearby table of the bathroom she was in. It was one owned by the hospital. She found herself staying in the hospital almost all the time now, constantly working and healing people. Her pager was going off. Someone was calling for her.