Another Conversation with The Darkness

Walking home from school with Sam…

“Hey Dad?”

“Yeah?”

“If you could have any superpower, what would you pick?”

“I think it’d be a toss up between flight and something like Wolverine’s healing factor.”

“But which one would you pick?”

“Probably flight. Although I wouldn’t mind invulnerability. I’d like to live forever.”

“What if you had three wishes? What would you wish for?”

“I have no idea.”

“You don’t know what you’d wish for?”

“Oh . . . well . . . I’d probably be nice enough to use one wishing that you would have everything you need in life to be happy and whole and then I’d use one for Julia for the same thing.”

“What about the last one?”

“Well . . . I think I’m gonna just keep that to myself for the time being, chief.”

“You could always wish for more wishes.”

“I don’t think that’s allowed.”

“Yes it is.”

“How do you know?”

No answer, he just smiles quietly.

My son…