Lucian pulled his phone from his pocket and swiped the screen open with one hand. If they were going to have fun, they might as well do it properly. He opened the map, his gaze sweeping across northern Canada before finally settling on Jasper National Park in the Rocky Mountains.
Snowy mountains, glaciers, horseback riding, cowboys.
For a nine-year-old boy who had been confined behind walls since childhood and had never even visited town, this was an utterly overwhelming temptation.
"Come on, Dad's taking you somewhere nice."
He scooped Ryan up and lifted off the ground. Fierce winds swept up the fallen leaves as the two shot into the sky in a blur.
Half an hour later, in a small town on the edge of Jasper National Park.
Lucian landed with Ryan in a deserted back alley behind a guesthouse outside town. He glanced down at his conspicuous stars-and-stripes uniform and frowned.
"Dad, are we here?" Ryan poked his head out curiously, his eyes shining like two stars as he looked at the snowcapped mountains stretching into the distance.
"We're here, but Dad needs to change first." Lucian ruffled his hair. "You know Dad's a big celebrity. If I go out dressed like this, people will crowd around us. Wait here for two minutes, and don't wander off."
"Okay!" Ryan nodded obediently and stood motionless in the corner by the wall.
Lucian turned and walked into a storage room in the guesthouse's backyard, closing the door.
Judging by the time, Physical Mimicry LV4 was almost at its duration limit. He took a deep breath and released the mimicry.
His muscles changed shape, and his blond, blue-eyed face rapidly melted and reformed, turning back into that of a young Chinese man with black hair and dark eyes.
Lucian looked down at