[Sandy hustled over eager to read more about the man she had put on a pedestal so long ago.]
His wife died...
[Images of a beautiful redhead, an obituary. Cancer.]
And around then he just stopped being Spider-man.
[Her face was twisted with confused emotions. She felt bad for him having seen enough death in her own short life to last her for the rest of it. But anger as well. The city had needed him, it had needed all of them but for whatever reason he seemed to be important. Without him all the pieces fell into place for the city to change for the worse.]
I don't know. I just...can we really leave it like this?
[But what else could they do. She turned away from the Parker files and over to a map of the city. It took her a few minutes to find her block. From there her eyes followed the streets to the church not too far from where they had just run from.]
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His wife died...
[Images of a beautiful redhead, an obituary. Cancer.]
And around then he just stopped being Spider-man.
[Her face was twisted with confused emotions. She felt bad for him having seen enough death in her own short life to last her for the rest of it. But anger as well. The city had needed him, it had needed all of them but for whatever reason he seemed to be important. Without him all the pieces fell into place for the city to change for the worse.]
I don't know. I just...can we really leave it like this?
[But what else could they do. She turned away from the Parker files and over to a map of the city. It took her a few minutes to find her block. From there her eyes followed the streets to the church not too far from where they had just run from.]