The year after Evan turned eighteen changed more than he expected.
Not in one sudden moment.
Not with a single event that made the city look at him differently.
It happened slowly, almost quietly, like most important things in life.
At first, Evan did not even realize it was happening.
He was still the same person he had always been. The son of a construction worker and a mother who stretched every dollar further than it should logically go. The same quiet student who blended into classrooms and avoided unnecessary attention.
But something inside him had shifted.
When he was younger, his parents taught him to hide his abilities.
Stay invisible.
Stay safe.
Now that he was older, the problem was not hiding.
The problem was ignoring.
Because every day, he saw things.
Things most people walked past.
An elderly man struggling to lift groceries up a flight of stairs.
A cyclist thrown off balance after a careless driver clipped his wheel.
