Mach 1

If I'd known just how useful speed could be, it would have been the first power that I looked for. Even a medium capacity speedster could hit more than Mach one, and their reaction speeds were proportionally increased. Added to my reaction speed enhancements from the Fae, and it was like the world was standing still, and I had all the time in the world to think of what I was going to do.

It wasn't true, of course.

Things that moved at the speed of light were still incredibly faster than I was, but none of that mattered if they couldn't target you in the first place. I had to wonder what a really fast speed user could see. I'd always thought that using super speed to acquire time travel was a stupid science fiction contrivance, but I could sense the possibility in the power, even if not under its own power. Maybe someone with an enhancement ability?

All of me sped up at the same time, and the battlefields beneath me froze.

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Buried