Maybe we took things too far.
Too far? How too far?
With the powers and the sacrifice and the weight of the world and the like. Too far, all of it.
Maybe we should stop second-guessing ourselves. Maybe we should think about the fate of our world. Have we thought enough about that?
We have. We have thought a considerable amount about that, about that and more.
More? Is there more for us to think about?
Maybe we should have thought about how it would feel for the subject. Maybe we should have considered the subject’s pain.
Maybe we should stop projecting feelings of our own loss onto the subject.
Maybe we could be more sensitive not only of the subject’s loss but of our own loss, too. Maybe we should remember that we were the cause of the subject’s loss and that, furthermore, we cry ourselves to sleep every night in remembrance of our own.
We needed a warrior. Or don’t we remember? We needed a warrior and that’s what we’ve now got. A warrior.
A sad warrior.
A warrior nonetheless. A warrior for our world. Our own warrior.
It was not our right. We have made her sacrifice all for a thing she does not understand.
We have granted her the mystic power of the universe! She is transformed! She is the power of the stars transmuted into the form of her.
We don’t think she likes it very much. The power of the stars. The transmutation into the form.
We think she looks rather intimidating and powerful in her mask and with her power.
We should change her back. We should make everything right.
If we could change her back, if we could make everything right, we wouldn’t have made her this way in the first place.
No. No. We suppose we’re right. We wouldn’t have.
So. What should we do now?
We suppose we should tell her.
About the space ship? The battles to come? Her life soon to be forfeit?
Yes. All of that. We should tell her all of that.
Let’s wait. Let’s wait a moment. Let’s give her one more moment. We can give her that.
Story by Manuel Gonzales
Photo by Emily Raw
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