News

[Living_Hellfire]

The flashing intro to PCNN blares into the night as walkers-by pause on their way home.

"I'm Graham Richardson and this is your Paragon City nightly news!" He shuffles his papers before turning in his chair to the next camera. It focused in on his face, now grave and serious.

 

"At the top of the hour we can report another sighting of The Living Hellfire." The image shifts awkwardly to show a grainy image of a burnt orange streak coursing its way across the night sky.

 

"This footage was taken moments after a car operated by known bank robbers was suddenly halted, all four tires blown out. The police made the arrests and the suspects are now in custody."

The image scratches and shifts.

"- and that's when seven children ran from the building!" A middle-aged blonde woman implores a reporter "You have no idea what I've seen! He came in from the sky, in a streak of fire and saved those children!"

It scratches again and a boy is standing on the street. Behind him is the noonday activity of a familiar neighbourhood. "Well, he was dressed in black and nodded, and then Frankie over there in the ice-cream truck smiled and that's how I got this!" The boy held up a chocolate dipped vanilla cone.

The image scratched again and a weathered PCPD Sargent stood in front of a liquor store.

 

"We arrived on scene to find three suspects having laid down their arms." The camera shifts awkwardly to focus on the MP5s on the sidewalk. "And that's it's. They confessed to the crime and we've taken them into custody."

In a tenement building in King's Row a little girl plays with a doll. Black and burnt orange with long red hair. She lifts it above her head and leaps off her bed, simulating flight and squealing with joy. Above her a streak of burnt orange flame blazes through the night.