Dreadnought (Nemesis, #1)

by April Daniels

You’ve seen aerial couriers downtown, right?” “Of course.” Every major city has a few people who can fly who make their living zipping time-sensitive materials from one end of the city to the other. Once you get ten feet in the air, there’s no such thing as a traffic jam. Until now, I’d never really stopped to think about why they’d be doing that instead of fighting crime. It seems normal; they’re just able to fly around town, right? It’s like being really good with a bike, but a little cooler, is all. “Right. Courier work is real popular with anybody who has a mobility power. High pay, short hours, and dead easy work that lets you spend most of your week doing whatever you want to do without worrying about money. A lot of fire departments will pay more than you’d think for people whose powers would help them with search-and-rescue work. Hell, one in a hundred of those guys doesn’t even need to breathe. They don’t do much to draw attention to themselves, but they’re there. That’s what a normal person who wants to help people with their power does: they join a government, or a nonprofit, or even just a company that’s not evil.”