WEEK 107

Prompt:

"How long have you been standing there?"

"Longer than you'd like."

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"I heard everything."

"Inconceivable!"

"Stop, I already told you that you are not Batman."

The man ripped off his black mask in frustration, for he knew he could never truly take the place of his father. "And you never will be," he replied in a mockingly high voice. "Yes, I've realised."

The girl he was talking to narrowed her eyes and wondered whether that was actually how high-pitched her voice sounded. But she didn't care about being mocked, so she turned away from him, about to walk away and leave him where he was standing.

He was standing on the frozen water of a lake, as a matter of fact, but he didn't realise any of that. Suddenly, the frosty layer crushed beneath his feet, and he fell into the deep, cold depths of the water.

So this is how my life's going to end. I didn't even get a chance to prove myself, he thought. But then, he realised that he could breathe underwater. However inconceivable it may have seemed, the lad managed to befriend the fish under the water. He then discovered that the water was freezing and he was dying of hypothermia. And so he died, but at least he had a fish friend!