Log:Time Change: Dawn

Time Change 2013/11/06 	 Sibusiso 2 A few days later...

Dawn has not yet graced the sky and Sibusiso (S'bu to her friends) stirs on the apex of the Creekview water tower. The atmosphere bends the light of the sun around the curve of the earth, lightening the Eastern sky and some of that indirect light falls on her. The light is like cake crumbs to a starving man: not enough to satisfy, but enough to wake the sences to the memory of food.

She rolls over and, with trembling arms, sits upright. These times are the worst for the aging superheroine. While the night has weakened her and robbed her limbs of dexterity, her full strength is so great that she can cause a great deal of damage before her full dexterity returns. Her movements are careful, slow, and methotical.

Then dawn arrives, heralded by a single spear of direct sunlight that falls directly on Sibusiso's starving flesh. Although there is no wind, her hair and clothing ripple as if the sunlight itself was a gale. In seconds, her full strength is restored. One at a time, she taps fingertip to thumb, performing the little dexterity test so fast that most eyes would see nothing but a blur.

She stands, stretches her hands far above her head as she inhales deeply, exhales as she lets them fall, then zooms into the air, accelerating to over two hundred miles per hour before she has moved a meter. She has a lot to do before the sun sets.