The Super Abilities Mystery Box had been one of the rewards he'd earned from the success of the whole Jonathan affair — the saving of Roxanne, that entire fraught episode.
He'd walked away from it with three prizes for work done well. The Cosmic Dragon Face Manifest. The Mystery Box. And the Super Abilities Mystery Box. Three trophies, fairly won — well. Won. Eira had certainly contributed her share, and he was not so ungracious as to scrub her out of what they'd achieved.
But the credit, broadly, had been his to collect, and collect it he had.
All of it. Except one...
The Super Abilities Mystery Box he had simply… never opened. It had sat unclaimed in the System's quiet inventory, a sealed promise gathering metaphysical dust, while he occupied himself with the next catastrophe and the catastrophe after that.
