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A Short Story : The Story Of The Story

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At first, she could see nothing but smoke. Then, from the center of all the vapors she heard with her enhanced senses a cry in pain. Without thinking twice, she ran towards the source of it until she reached a terrified child with a burn on his leg. She started to drag the boy away from the smoke and flames, but yelped when the fire jumped out at her. But, she persevered and made it to the street with the child in hand. When she got a closer look at him, she realized that he could have only been no older than 6 or 7 years old. Then, she looked closer at his leg. Taking a deep breath, she touched the unbroken skin next to the wound and willed her power to heal the burn. A strange sensation filled her fingers and when she looked back down, scar tissue had replaced the angry, red burn. “Do you know where your parent is?,” she asked him. “Mama, Mama!”, he yelled, pointing at a woman who was frantically running towards them. When she reached them, she repeated thanked Adelyn and then took her son and left for shelter. The little boy smiled over his shoulder at her and walked away with his mother. In that moment, Adelyn knew that she was doing exactly what she was meant to do. The next person she reached was a girl in her late teens who was lying in an stairwell with a leg that was bent in the wrong angle. When she saw Adelyn, she started weeping for joy. “I.. I, I thought that nobody was going to find me! Ev.. everybody left the building and I was so so scared that I was

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