Chan's Story
Chan Norwell stood atop the tallest tower in Olympus, arms out and fingers spread as they tested the wind. The entire city of Olympus lay below him like a blanket of colorful lights. He had never been this high before. Would his family come up here and wonder what had run through his mind as he took his last step? Or would they simply forget him?
Chan shook his head. He wouldn’t defile this moment with thoughts of those he’d once called family. Now he simply stood between ground and sky, part of both and yet part of neither—and soon he would cease to be at all.
He couldn’t say why the fates had set him on this course. In some ways he had been destined for this his entire life. But he knew the events of the past forty-eight hours had clinched it.
The beginning of the end ha
