The Witness

Traci Thirteen sighed as she floated to the ground in the middle of the ruins of what had once been a small grocery store. Someone had released a sliver of chaos magic into her city, and the trail stopped there. Then...

...nothing.

It was as if it had turned to smoke and vanished, like the illusions her father had scoffed at on television. But this wasn't an illusion. This magic was real, and it was dangerous. Chaos magic, if in the wrong hands, could have terrifying consequences, no matter how thin the sliver was. Being tied deeply with the nature of reality, its use very quickly caused havoc, altering reality, granting wishes, changing what we thought of as real and unreal.

She had been at home feeding Leeroy, her iguana, when the city's urban magic began to scream at her. Something was wrong, something was changing. It didn't take Traci long to get across town, to find the destruction caused by the battle of between Wonder Woman and Black Adam. The police had already closed off the street, but that didn't stop Traci. She wasn't the most powerful magic user in the world, but evading the MPD was well within her abilities.

Had the battle released the chaos magic? Had it been something else? Whatever it had been, it was out there, now in a form that she could no longer detect. Her city was in danger.

Luckily, her powers weren't her only tools.

She walked slowly, scouring the crime scene, looking for anything that might help. Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man, had taught her well. Use your eyes, follow your nose, find a clue. Someone must have seen something. There had to be at least a shred of...

There.

Evidence.

A wiggle of her fingers had the rubble gently rearranging itself. A thin green binder. On the cover, in black marker, was written the word SCHEDULE. Holding the binder in her hands, she flipped it open and found that day's date and found the name of her witness.

Jack

On the inside cover were phone numbers of all employees and management. Pulling her phone out, she dialed (489)555-4455, and it began to ring.