Chapter 5

Holding a coughing Leo, I burst out of the building. My legs buckled, and I collapsed heavily onto the lawn mats set up by the paramedics.

Leo was covered in soot, his eyes tightly shut, tears squeezed out from the smoke.

Just an instant before we broke out of the inferno, a falling beam had smashed through the handrail. The Spider-Man action figure he was holding so tightly had slipped from his grip and was swallowed by the rolling flames in a flash.

"Cap... Captain! Someone came out from Zone B!"

A firefighter's shout sounded nearby.

Keller, who had draped…