I try to lay quietly in bed so I can go to sleep, but my mind is like having three or four television sets on at the same time, with the volume turned all the way up.
I was imagining a super hero that did everything and had no flaws what-so-ever. He discovered his powers by accidentally triggering a plasma field around him so hot he melted into the Earth, at one point passing through an active coal mine, setting it on fire as he continued to the Earth's mantle.
He floundered for a while as he continued to fall toward's the core, but finally found his flight skills and headed toward a strange dark ledge that turned out to be the Cascadia Subduction Zone ridge along the Pacific North West.
He passed through a massive open space which turned out to be part of the Yellowstone Super Caldera. All this time he neglected to look behind himself. He was boring a man-sized hole up through the crust, followed not by magma, but mantle material (supposedly something much worse, but if I'm wrong, just go with it.)
He finally emerges in the ocean through a thermal vent at the bottom of the sea and cools down. Eventually he makes it ashore near Ocean Shores, Washington, totally naked. Luckily it's winter, but he still gets caught stealing clothes.
He's only held for a little while because a massive earth quake off shore triggers a tsunami and everyone must evacuate. In the prisoner transport, the guards have the radio on listening to disaster reports coming from Wyoming and Illinois where he first flamed up.
He just kept his head down, his mouth shut and his shackles on. At least for the time-being.
