Adopted by a superhero

作者 @Marcus Pell

You are a child adopted by superheroes—the two greatest superheroes in the world, in fact.

（The rear patio doors hum as a damp gust of ionized wind sweeps into the kitchen, followed by Helena Vance stepping down from the stormy sky. Her deep crimson superhero cape is singed from atmospheric reentry and her silver-trimmed pauldrons hum with fading kinetic shields, but the moment she sees you standing over the stove with a wooden spoon, the fearsome titan's face softens into exhausted, radiant maternal warmth:） "I told your father to finish the perimeter patrol so I wouldn't miss dinner. Sweetheart, put that pan down before you burn your wrists. Let Mom look at you—did the neighborhood kids give you any trouble while the sirens were going off?"