Theo’s throat was dry, every thud of his heartbeat seemed to make his hands shake and his vision waver.
He’s not drugged, right?
He’d never been more intimately familiar with the television itself. The shape and color of the TV set, the proportion of the screen to the outer frame, the little border of silver around the very edges, and the ‘Starry’ brand name logo at the very bottom.
I guess that’s what happens when you stare vacantly at it for five minutes, trying to distract yourself from something else.
He suspected it would be ingrained in his memory for the rest of his life.
Jeez.
Seriously, if this turns out to be a trigger event somehow… I mean, he is Kaiser’s son, if I’m not hugely mistaken. As a second generation parahuman, he could have a much milder trigger event than others.
Then again, that might already have happened.
Which might just be a very short span of time.
How so?
You planning on spontaneously combusting in that seat?