[ WP ] 'They said they 'd return when the world needed heroes again . They lied . '

The first time they came, they saved us all; once the world went back to normal, they left as quickly as they arrived. They said they ’ d return when the world needed heroes again. We lived with that knowledge, that blind trust, that they would do the same again. 
 
 Twenty years later, the day the sky turned red, I waited for them to return like they promised me. The green corn fields set against the red sky looked like a dystopian Christmas card and, in my mind, if there ever a clear signal that the world needed heroes, that was it. 
 
 That ’ s what heroes did; they saved the day just when you thought all was lost. I dreamed they would arrive and the sky would return to the blue I remembered. They didn ’ t come - not that day or the next or the next. 
 
 They didn ’ t come the day the corn fields turned to dust or when the sea swallowed Florida. They didn ’ t come the day New Zealand and California were decimated by earthquake after earthquake. Or the day the Pyramids returned into the sand beneath them and the Eiffel Tower collapsed from the heat. 
 
 They said they ’ d return when the world needed heroes again. 
 
 They lied.
