Atomic feet

Premium uranium packed fuel rods. Ample stores of heavy water. Triple redundant lead control rods. State-of-the-art programed computer reaction control software. All with a human controlled safeguard.

She has Atomic feet. It has enabled her to run from everything. Originally designed to be a safety defense mechanism against hurt and pain. But the designers were too clever. They never told the human in the link that there were things they should not run from. So she has Atomic feet.

Some have tried to love her. She ran. Some have tried to protect her. She ran. Even in the face of her own decisions, her own life, she's still running. She has Atomic feet. And the human at the controls is out of control and still running.

Maybe she likes the freedom. Maybe she fears the dawn. Maybe she outruns the twilight. Maybe she just doesn't know any other way. After all she has Atomic feet. The path of her destruction can be seen in the radioactive footprints she leaves through the lives of those she runs from.

It's been said that there are times she cries. But no one can approach her to dry her tears. No one can stand for her long enough, for her feet are fast enough. Maybe that's why she redlines the reactor.

For those who tried and were burned there will be no plaques of heroism. There will be no, "At least you tried." And even after the Medics have tended to the burns they know that they just weren't good enough. She has Atomic feet and she runs very fast.

Where is the government? Where is the agency that protects us? Where is the agency that can help her? Would she even accept it?

That's the problem with Atomic feet. They never stop running and they'll burn everyone. Even her.