Chapter 10

That didn’t just happen, he tried to assure himself. I was still dreaming…But it had seemedreal.

It wasn’t. He couldn’t fly. He couldn’t even jump very high.

Couldhe?

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Unsettled, Vic did what he always did to relax. He went to the gym.

The place was crowded, full of people gung-ho on sticking to their New Year’s resolutions, but most of them wouldn’t last the week. As Vic stepped into the overflowing lobby, he had a terrifying moment where he braced himself for an onslaught of others’ thoughts, but it never came. Proof that it wasn’t real to begin with.

But why didn’t he quite believe that?