Vina and Roy arrive in Opal City in late afternoon, with the Sun already a big orange ball over the steaming bayous. Long soft shadows overlap Opal’s quirky mansions like the claws of some spindly shadow-being.
Also overlapping the streets: narrow elongated shadows of cackling witches in witch hats, clawing at the windows EXACTLY like the claws of some spindly shadow-being!
A hipster cop with an earring runs past, his shirt in bloody shreds. His own shadow glides up the wall behind him, passes him, then steps out into the street and swings its two-dimensional fingers, knocking him to the ground!
The cop, eyes crazed with fear, fires a shot into the shadow. The bullet pocks an old brick façade across the street, having passed right through the shadow without slowing.
Suddenly another shadow looms up. The flash of the cop’s gun has momentarily thrown the Leaguers’ shadows into sharp relief. And the winged shadow of Vina, cast on a clock tower down the block, is HUGE …
And it nocks an arrow as long as a bus.
The real Vina nocks an arrow, aiming it at the sky. It's a long-lasting flare and disperses the shadows (hopefully). As they are dispersed (or not), she takes out a spyglass (?) and tries to find the source of the shadows before they vanish. Logically, they should be leading away from some central point. Logically...
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