Greg Veder has rules for getting through a day at Winslow without becoming the joke. Don't talk too much. Don't sound excited. If the room goes quiet, stop talking. He's spent years building faces in the bathroom mirror, an easygoing one for lunch tables and a calm one for teachers, and none of them have ever helped.
Then, one Friday night at the docks, a terrified fifteen-year-old with no costume puts his bare hand on Lung's arm and pulls out the part of him that climbs.
Lung goes down. The ABB loses its dragon. And Greg walks home with a stolen engine under his breastbone that answers every fear the same way: more.
Now the PRT is fishing for a kid nobody can describe, PHO has named him Chimera, Glory Girl keeps circling, Panacea can't read what's inside him, and Tattletale knows his name before he's told anyone. A villain called Coil wants to buy him. A bomber wants him dead. And the scariest thing about Greg's power isn't what it takes from other people. It's how much he likes taking.
He calls the place he buries that feeling the Grave. It's getting crowded.
A slow-burn story of stolen powers, borrowed trust, consent rules written in a notebook, and a boy trying to be a monster that villains are afraid of, without becoming one.
Then, one Friday night at the docks, a terrified fifteen-year-old with no costume puts his bare hand on Lung's arm and pulls out the part of him that climbs.
Lung goes down. The ABB loses its dragon. And Greg walks home with a stolen engine under his breastbone that answers every fear the same way: more.
Now the PRT is fishing for a kid nobody can describe, PHO has named him Chimera, Glory Girl keeps circling, Panacea can't read what's inside him, and Tattletale knows his name before he's told anyone. A villain called Coil wants to buy him. A bomber wants him dead. And the scariest thing about Greg's power isn't what it takes from other people. It's how much he likes taking.
He calls the place he buries that feeling the Grave. It's getting crowded.
A slow-burn story of stolen powers, borrowed trust, consent rules written in a notebook, and a boy trying to be a monster that villains are afraid of, without becoming one.
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