The Trending Feeds Lifted Me Up

She pushed her tablet over. The screen showed the most-watched clip from the night before. The view count had already crossed ten million. It stitched together the moments of Noah yanking the billboard sideways, slamming the steel plate, and forcing the black-market enforcers to their knees, all set to an overblown drum beat. "Here," Lucy said, tapping one frame. "See that? Every time you act, there's a blue trace in the air first. A few amateur tech creators have already been zooming in on it." Noah leaned back, irritated. "So now I'm a weird special effect?" "More than that," Lucy said. "You're evidence." Before he could answer, an official bulletin slid onto his phone.