chapter 2

the next day.

Logging onto the family's computer with dad. he brought up the lists of possible employees. And surprisingly the majority was men. being tough hardened men but luckily in the bunch a couple of their wives also had the details down for the occasional admin work the the dockworkers Association would acquire.

after phoning around a dozen 3 got back to us saying they were free and would be up for some form of care work but expressed they wasn't qualified dad Said we don't care about qualifications just as long as you Feel you can handle all briefly explaining my needs.

Keep an eye on me I shouldn't be left alone I could possibly harm myself and that I had to make sure I took my medicine regularly to help make food and tidy up after me keep me warm and generally be my servant.

and so dad arranged for two shifts for them to come throughout the day. dad explained if somebody does a whole day they will not be as enthusiastic best to have one in the morning and one in the afternoon plus it was more frailer to give more people work he was kind like that I personally would have had a bidding war to see who would do the cheapest but he gave me that look and I suggested in like I should feel really guilty.

I think it must be the adrenaline and the moment because since I've been home I have felt much shittier much weaker and I'm sure possible mental trauma having somebody better help will be a life changer.

An hour later the lady arrived and as soon as she was practically in and set up dad headed off work. dad made sure his personal office was locked and that general snooping was harder far was going to be in bed I couldn't keep an eye on the carer.

Over the next week I slowly physically recovered I still wasn't sure if I was having a psychological breakdown wasn't bloodied normal to see visions and shapes it dawned on me pretty quickly as it does with most people when something weird happens is it Cape related. so many bloodied normal experiences lately get accused of being supernatural sooner somebody cannot explain something 100% is always somebody shouted capes.

I couldn't totally dismiss it that it felt pretty unlikely a cape has mentally effectively me this weird inner I seemed to be getting stronger not the other way around generally when a cape affects something the effect wears off not increases.

Wrapped up in a blanket with hot chocolate on the settee I shut my eyes and went back to just focusing on this new weird feeling could only bring me to the conclusion that I managed to at breaking point broke through into the exclusive club of capes.

But like with everything in my life I was shortchanged. if it wasn't my mother dying shitty school life with attempted murder now whatever weird quirk that granted certain species of talking monkey the ability to screw with the laws of physics at a whim joined the club.

I remember reading somewhere that if you jumped off a bridge and triggered you were more likely to gain a flying power followed by brute generally it was considered your power was mentally triggered by a possible antibody to whatever caused you to trigger.

So far nobody while being attacked by a a Endbringers has triggered with an obvious counter many have triggered and they've always been considerably stronger designed to fight that particular based but only as far as the as the imagination of the user combined with an upper limit that is in the top 30% of capes.

After 30 years of capes knowledge about them is pretty well known every country and organisation of any merit was researching capes like crazy and has been enough leaks that there's not really any real secrets hidden from the general public.

Of course countries love to claim up-to-date modern mumbo-jumbo is top-secret and puts them one step higher than the competition but overall is nothing more than someone else having the latest version of the smart phone over somebody else doesn't make much particular difference but with everybody scrambling fair every little they can get it's like another arms race but with capes.

It has been speculated for a very long time and hoped by many that if you ever get into a supposedly trigger moment start thinking something mighty with the expectation you gain an awesome power over a shit one. Don't think small and hope your subconscious gets the bloodied memo but then those people who talk about it have never triggered.

All I know is when I was in that locker and even same the word locker makes me shiver in anguish. The last thing on my mind was to think of an Alexandra package as a solution I was to in the moment to traumatic and right now I feel it wasn't worth it.

Many have commented and strongly speculated even quite a few celebrities included have said like going through painful plastic surgery to have a terrible horrible experience in exchange for superpowers would seem worth it.

and even myself a week ago might have truly of considered it and overall I think I could lie to myself and say it was worth it.

if my powers were awesome but just to have an inner I and to be able to hear and see possible blurry shapes sounds and weird senses seemed to be a shit deal.

if I was truly going to tell the truth nobody can truly in words describe how awful it had to be for a trigger moment people might imagine been tortured but until you have truly experience the sheer mental anguish to something you could never ever want to go through for any price.

if only there was a Cape that could put people into a mental trance that could force a trigger moment without being consciously aware as everybody did agree it was subconscious that did it so many people have tried to artificially induced a trigger moment.

Even people who have been scientifically proven that have the ability to trigger can't just dream up fake nightmares or just pretend there scared and scream until they trigger it seriously has to be something bloodily awful and not just be locked into a machine that you know there's a failsafe if you know even subconscious that the event is staged it doesn't work.

it is like the power is sentient and physically checks if you're cheating.

If a group of people say they going to torture you to death until you trigger you most likely will but if your group of mates set up a scenario where they have your consent hurt you to the point of death and just before heal you and repeat until you trigger. that has proven to never work North Korea was rumoured to put a group of volunteers (at gunpoint) through that process for two years repeatedly and it's pretty considered to be scientifically impossible to make people trigger in staged events.

But one one of them was leaving the facility was accidentally run over he triggered and blasted the car to blitz.

There has never been any reported case of anybody who truly knows subconsciously that they're not in true danger even the slightest shadow of a doubt that the situation is manufactured will cause it to fail.

If me and a group of mates went out and kidnapped somebody and tortured them until they triggered that is different than if we tell the person that's what we were planning if the person at the slightest hint we want truly going to torture them to death then they wouldn't trigger or at least that's what every major source internationally has said and countries so politically opposed to one another have agreed at least that so unless there's a secret global conspiracy on such a level of scale that is impossible to comprehend then to all practical knowledge you can only ever get capes from 2 places like I call them

free range capes (natural triggers)

lucky bustards (kids of capes).