Broken Prison

Have you been watching the news? I never realized that ice could do that much damage. It's a sobering thought. They'll have to build an entirely new prison, and prisons aren't exactly delicate works of architecture. It's not just broken pipes and frosty windows. The prison doesn't really have right angles any more, just bulging mounds and spires of ice with dark lumps trapped in it. There are no sharp lines in the ice, just irregular wobbles and curves, but it doesn't look funny or harmless or beautiful at all. I've seen those National Geographic pictures of icebergs and shattered rocks, but it always seemed so abstract, so artsy. When you look at something like a broken concrete and iron building, wrenched from its foundations and shattered into jagged boulders slimed over with ice, then cryogenesis stops seeming all winter wonderland pretty. There are people impaled on icicles, or frozen to death, or with blocks of ice in their lungs. There are parts of people everywhere, and the ice is so dirty that there's no way of telling what's grime and what used to be part of a person. The media has been merciless in its coverage. They're still extracting prisoners from the wing that was furthest away from Killer Frost, and they've had to pull a lot of the Midwest pyrokinetics to do it without boiling anyone to death. Even with all the professionals and tools far more sophisticated than hairdryers and screwdrivers, people are coming out minus their faces, fingers and skin.
This is ugly. I got the shivers watching the news feeds. It makes me afraid of what I can do. I would never, ever do something like this. But one day, I might be able to. And nobody is going to have as much confidence in the strength of my principles as I do. Nobody would think my word that I'm a good person would be enough to keep everyone else safe. And I'm not entirely sure I could blame them for that.
When a cryogenetic like me starts seeing eye to eye with people like Angela Slater, it's confusing to everyone's world view. But honestly, superhumans can be terrifying at times. Even when you're one of them.