Only, why do crooks use bullets on Revearth?
Good question. I gave Marcus a facetious answer to it up above. The serious answer is that this is what is known, in technical parlance, as an "oopsie."
I've tweaked the story for the archive so that no guns are involved. (The relevant lines became, "How could this happen? He seemed so sane. What could make him think all of a sudden that he can fly or start fires with his eyes?")
I purposely left the location ambiguous, since I wanted to let the reader, early on, have the possibility of thinking that this was an ASU spinoff. I was envisioning it as a medical wing in a mental hospital.
Joy,
Lynn
