Post #75 – First Try

Alexis stumbled out of the way, as the door whipped open with a crash! Smoke and fire billowed into the room, obscuring the vaults lining the walls.

In most banks, this would have been the point when all the employees were rounded up and held at gunpoint until burglars left, or the cops arrived. But the air was full of shadows, and Alexis knew that only a few other people were still on duty.

She drew in a shaky breath; it was only last week, that her mother had passed on to her the family’s ancient brooch, and the spandex cloak that apparently came with it. She didn’t know exactly how it worked. But there was no better time to try. When the first men darted into the room, she shouted the Words of Power and came out swinging.

Her first strike missed. But the second landed.

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