Supernova

Previously

…He turned away from the street, the city a vast, indifferent entity around him. He could feel the power thrumming beneath his skin, a restless energy waiting to be unleashed. For the first time, it didn’t feel like a source of liberation, but of profound obligation. He’d been playing games, but the stakes had just been raised. And he knew, with a certainty that chilled him to the bone, that he could no longer afford to be selfish. The moral compass, once so easily ignored, was now spinning wildly, pointing him towards a path he hadn't considered, a path that demanded more of him than he’d ever imagined. The question was, could he follow it?