re: Animate [ME] - A Superhero Story
There are stories about daring, buff alien men
who wear capes and save people from burning buildings.
This is not one of those.
who wear capes and save people from burning buildings.
This is not one of those.
There are stories about extraordinary archers,
who can pin a termite against a feather
from 3 miles away.
This is not one of those, either.
who can pin a termite against a feather
from 3 miles away.
This is not one of those, either.
There are stories about warrior women
from a time forgotten,
who deliver the world from
the evil clutches of old gods.
Nope, not this one either.
from a time forgotten,
who deliver the world from
the evil clutches of old gods.
Nope, not this one either.
This is one about the generation after,
the kids who grow up
in the shadows of superheroes.
The heroes whose capes
are heavy and whose cowls
are shrouded, whose stories
the kids who grow up
in the shadows of superheroes.
The heroes whose capes
are heavy and whose cowls
are shrouded, whose stories
are the hardest to hear.
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Our story opens upon an adolescent Damarus Ducet,
the son of a warrior no one remembers.
A bookish mama's boy, Damarus has one friend in the whole world,
Gwendolyn Downs, the daughter of two of the greatest
mages the world has ever known.
And it so happens, she's sitting close by the target of his latest quest:
A journal that doesn't belong.
the son of a warrior no one remembers.
A bookish mama's boy, Damarus has one friend in the whole world,
Gwendolyn Downs, the daughter of two of the greatest
mages the world has ever known.
And it so happens, she's sitting close by the target of his latest quest:
A journal that doesn't belong.