Sean by Robert Loggains

Sean sat there nursing the drink, beer he thought though he wasn’t honestly sure, he didn’t really care.
He stared at the TV as reports came in from Milton, Maine.
Ryan had done it, he had actually done it.
Sean knew Ryan must have gone insane by now, or even if he hadn’t he just needed to be put down like a rabid animal, that is the closest thing to what he was now.
Sean might be able to do it, he had power too.
But Sean was a coward, or so he thought.
He didn’t think about how Ryan could kill him before he made a move, how Ryan could destroy him before Sean could do anything.
Sean could only see the flaws in himself right now, the lives he might be able to save if he was in New York.
Sean could hear something, a thought, he could hear a man following a woman down the hall of the building, the man planned to end her life in the most sadistic and cruel fashion possible.
Sean laughed as he heard those thoughts, knowing how petty the man really was, how little imagination he had.
But it would still be bad enough for the woman, even the man would suffer from it, his plans were sloppy and murders have a high rate of being solved.
Sean broke into the man’s mind, erasing memories, changing thoughts and feelings, the man cried out, he didn’t know what was happening to him.
A few minutes later the man got up, his life forever changed, a good man now, one who would save lives, who would help his community, who would have a life and loving family, it had all been inside the monster before Sean had found it, just buried so deep it couldn’t have come out any other way.
Sean was a coward, he wouldn’t fight Red Death.
But he was a member of the True Seven himself, and with that came a bit of power, but more than that.
Sean was still a hero, he would still do good in the world as best he could.
His mind probed the outside the building’s walls, searching for another life and soul to save.
It kept his mind from what was coming next.