Chapter Sixteen
Early the next morning, with the first rays of the sun peaking over the horizon, I landed in an abandoned, rundown-looking part of New York City. The streets were incredibly dirty and covered with garbage, while many of the windows of the various buildings were either smashed in or boarded up, sometimes both. The place smelled of rain and trash, no doubt due to the brief rain cloud that had covered the area earlier, a rain storm I had gotten briefly caught in, but I was okay despite being a little wet.
A quick look around the area showed me that I was alone. That didn’t surprise me too much, given how bombed out this part of the city looked, but that didn’t matter. Even if there had been other people around here, I would have been able to handle them, given my superpowers
