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Afterward, Sarah and I put our clothes back on. She took out her glasses from her pocket, which had stayed perfectly intact, fitting them back to the bridge of her nose. She surprised me with another tight embrace when I turned to her. I was more than happy to accept those any time. When her arms fell away from me, she took a deep breath through her nose. I looked to her with a smile upon my face.

"You good?" I asked.

"Yeah," she said with a content sigh, "I'm great, actually." The two of us shared a laugh. She then took a brief look around. "It's so strange. How everything looks normal, but ... it's so quiet and so... still. It really is peaceful, but after the way you explained it, it feels kind of like an eerie peaceful."

"I know what you mean," I replied as I rested against the nearby wall. "The day I figured out I even had this power, I stopped time and walked around the city I lived in. For a little while, it was so cool knowing that I could just run around anywhere I wanted and