BOOM!!
The explosion tore through the building like paper.
Fire bloomed outward in every direction. Orange and violent, glass and debris scattering across the street below in a wide, devastating radius. The upper floors collapsed inward with a grinding roar that shook the ground three blocks over.
From the heart of it, a figure jumped.
He cleared the fire in a single leap and landed on the road below with both feet, perfectly balanced, the impact absorbed through bent knees like it was nothing.
His black clothes were singed at the edges. His dark hair was slightly wild from the blast.
Not a scratch on him.
He straightened up and looked back at the burning building.
"...Fuck." He exhaled slowly. "I actually did that."
A beat of silence.
"I am so done for."
He started running.
"STOP RIGHT THERE, ETHAN!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!"
The voice came from somewhere behind the fire... furious, loud enough to rattle windows. Multiple sets of footsteps followed it, heavy and fast.
