Nova was shaking slightly as she stared down at her blood-covered hands, still kneeling down on the edge of the sidewalk. Everything had happened so fast -- yelling, screeching tired, the deafening BANG as a body collided with traffic. She’d responded on impulse, nearly thrown herself into the mess, desperate to help. And she had, she’d managed to fix it before it was too late, endured the pain that shot through her body as she mended someone else’s. And then someone had pulled her off, pushed her aside, been loud and obnoxious about someone needing to call 911 and the victim was still in shock and didn’t tell them that the blood was just blood and there were no wounds left to tend to.
And now the adrenaline had worn off and she was trembling, unable to move, shaken up from her own boldness, from the rejection, from all the blood and the feeling that nobody cared.










