Once Our Hope



She was supposed to be humanity’s last light. The girl who arrived when the monsters did. The one cities painted on murals and whispered about like a prayer.
Then something in her broke.
The smile stayed. The power stayed. The mercy did not.
Now, when the sky splits and that red-eyed laugh hits the street, people do not run toward her. They run from the rescue. Because she still saves the world. She just levels a city doing it.
Hope used to wear her face.
These days, hope is that she never comes.

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