Turn to Burn

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nike's bones burn to save the city.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Seventeen-year-old Nike stalks Toronto's streets by night hunting raitgur-alien land squids that slither through shadows infecting the vulnerable. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her father wields Burner fire to destroy them but the spark that comes from her. He burns Nike's fingers like wicks stealing her flame to fuel his war.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She hates it. Hates him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But the raitgur took everything. Her mother. Her sister. So if setting herself on fire is the price of vengeance she'll pay it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Except the burns are getting worse. Her father's power is guttering. The city's infection is spreading. And Nike wonders how much more she can take. Isn't it </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>her </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>turn to burn?</span></p>