The headlines roared across every screen in the city:
"KILLER CORONER DEAD – VIGILANTE SLAUGHTERED IN POLICE SHOOTOUT."
People exhaled.
Doors unlocked.
Night felt a little safer.
But evil doesn't die so easily.
In the dark, beneath the city's veins, blood still dripped. Rats scurried over discarded scrubs. And in the silence, a heart beat on not out of hope, but vengeance.
Jay wasn't dead.
He was becoming something worse.
Something free.