Big Pig Trotters

Kara was anxious.

She didn't know why.

Even deep into the night, Leon was nowhere to be seen.

For no reason at all, she began to feel restless.

It was as if hundreds of rabbits had been stuffed into her heart, all of them hopping around and digging holes in every corner.

Though she said Leon had gone missing,

she didn't actually believe someone as powerful as Leon could be in danger.

She was only instinctively looking for an excuse to ask Tony and JARVIS to help find out where Leon had gone.

Because she couldn't stop her mind from wondering who exactly Leon had gone to see.

Was there really anyone in this world who could make Leon stay out all night?

For the past week, they had slept in the same suite, separated only by a wall between their bedrooms.

And Leon hadn't even gone out once that entire week.

Yet now, the moment he went out, he didn't come back for the night.

Kara suddenly hated her brain for being as powerful as a supercomputer.

Every second, that unbelievably capable mind kept throwing countless logically sound guesses at her.

And along with those guesses came vividly imagined scenes—

Scenes like the one Tony had mentioned, where Leon went to another city to meet another girl.

Scenes where Leon was exposed to red sunlight, weakened, and captured.

There were even scenes where Leon simply abandoned her and Tony at the hotel and left this universe alone.

Kara's mind was a complete mess.

Unable to sleep, she stood before the floor-to-ceiling window all night.

She waited until dawn, until sunlight passed through the window once more and awakened her cells.

Yet Kara still failed to see the figure she had been searching for on the distant horizon.

As time