Chapter Seven:
A Tool to be Used
What Alayna does not tell Loki is her reason for leaving, a six alarm fire in a high rise. She knows people are trapped and people are dying.
This is the kind of situation where she feels most helpless. Fire is the only element she cannot fully understand or control. It is the only force of natural that scares her. In this situation she is no hero diving into a building rescuing those trapped inside. She can only leave that to the professionals.
Instead she is just another tool to be used. She can rescue those at their windows, high above where a ladder cannot reach or she can tell the fire fighters the locations of those still trapped inside by closing her eyes, opening her mind to their fear and desperation often feeling their spark leave their bodies when it is too late.
After it is all said and done she will wander the streets smelling of smoke and death, cloaking herself from the judgmental eyes of humanity.