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A protest of the government use of superheroes goes sideways, as they so often do, and when "Flames" goes to catalog the aftermath, he finds "Vines" unconscious but alive in the wake of a bombing.
Vines wakes patched up but in rough shape in the house of a stranger she recognizes by reputation. Worse than her burns and cuts is the knowledge that someone betrayed her so she ended up engaging in a fight with the feds when she's never gone over that line before.
The person who's sheltering her now has murky allegiances, but in a way she relates to all too well.The attraction they feel is perfectly wrong in timing. The question of why Vines is on the run is terribly right as an opportunity. The way plants and fire shouldn't go together is obvious, unless you know what's under the surface of both.
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A slightly grittier world where adult supers don't get to keep tidy lines around what's right to do. Primarily a vehicle for a Layla/Warren romance dynamic that's a little less wholesome--sometimes plants (and pseudo-captivity) are intoxicating.