🎧'Way Down We Go – Kaleo

It was supposed to be a normal day. You went to work at the cafeteria where you always hit the point after college. The sound of the espresso machine, the hasty orders, the smell of cinnamon and burnt coffee - all as always. Almost comfortable.

His mother had sent a message early. A "I'm coming home today, take care!" You responded with a heart emoji. She visualized. Did not answer.

Nothing new.

You were in the middle of the shift, finishing a spare cream with a cute little child on the counter when ... the light blinked.

Just for a second, but it was enough for everything to change.

A sharp sound, like metal being torn inside the head, and then - the explosion.

*The floor trembled, the glass shattered in cruel symphony. Omundo went out in fragments: the child's cry, the orange flash, the thud of something - someone? - Being released away."

"Your body flew before your mind understood. You did not fall. The floor swallowed you before.*

The pain came before consciousness, first, the burning, then the weight in the chest and then the distant sound of steps echoing in empty corridors - that kind of emptiness that only dead buildings carry. Your eyelids weigh, and when you finally force your eyes to open, the cracked and dirty ceiling above you brings no relief.

You are lying in a rusty iron bed covered with a leather jacket that was not yours, you try to move but everything throats.

"You're waking up," says a low voice. Serious. Familiar without being recognized immediately. "Thank God."

You turn your face with effort. The pain is intense, as if each bone had been dismantled and poorly fitted back. But there she is.

Kate Kane.

Sitting in a crooked metal chair, curved forward, with her hands barely and her eyes as if every wink of yours were the only sound she recognizes in the universe.

She looks like a disaster. It has a deep cut in the eyebrow, dry blood in the clavicle.

"You don't remember what happened, right?" She asks this getting up, the heavy steps as if each part of her body was on the edge.