Scenario:a reporter sets out to interview people, as he believes that world, they live in was meant, to be filled with colorful costumed heroes and villains, a age of marvels if you will, however something went wrong and prevented that all from happening, and he's gonna find the point where that happened.
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a reporter sets out to interview people, as he believes that world, they live in was meant, to be filled with colorful costumed heroes and villains, a age of marvels if you will, however something went wrong and prevented that all from happening, and he's gonna find the point where that happened.
I finally found one.
Lily Chen hadn’t been a superhero, but she had been a librarian.
That was close enough.
Librarians were the unsung heroes of our potential hero-filled world.
She invites me in and we sit down in her living room.
She’s a tiny woman in her early sixties, with white hair and thick, round glasses.
She looks like she steps straight out of a cartoon, diminutive, bespectacled, and harmless.
But then she speaks and her voice is like a sword.
"I’ve been expecting you," she says.
"Who are you expecting?"
I ask.
"Someone. Anyone. I didn’t think it would be you personally."
She stands up and walks over to the bookshelf dominating the room.
Through my powers, I see a dozen thick folders hiding behind false backs of books.
I also see a pistol hidden under a couch cushion.
This is definitely the right Lily Chen.
"I can give you access to historical records," she says.
"News stories, police reports. Anything you might need to research the absence of superheroes."
"Why would you do that?"
I ask.
"Because I want to know," she says.
"Why the world turned out the way it did. I want to know what went wrong."
"Me too," I say.
"I thought this world was supposed to be filled with colorful costumed heroes and villains. Something happened, though. Something that prevented all that from occurring."
"A age of marvels," she says.
"Exactly. A time of wonder and excitement. Instead we got… this."