C43 She Hid Her Strength and Fame

The pistol clattered to the ground, yet the agonizing scream that followed didn't come from the black child.

Onlookers stared in disbelief as a man collapsed, his gun-wielding hand impaled by a mere pebble.

The man inhaled sharply, astonished by the sheer force required to give such ordinary stone such fearsome penetrating power.

"Who's there!" he bellowed, peering outside the factory