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She watched the power burgeoning, the bucking frenzied, the tendrils whipping like the liiant, wave-thrashed anemone

Darkness had been peeled back by the bristling energy, the shadows dancing wild A sudden shout

The heaving chain sprang loose, the roar of its escape thundering in the ground beneath Seren’s feet Figures staggered as the wave launched skyward, obliterating the night It crest was blinding green fire, the curving wall in its wake a lu latticework

The wall sed the north sky, and still the crest rose, power streaes blackened, then spun into white ash on swirling winds

Beneath the roar, a shriek, then screa wall at the base of the wave It took hiush of blood, it devoured his flesh Before the hapless figure could even crule upright boot on the blistered ground in front of the foa as it went Until it was gone Air hissed past her, buffeting and bitter cold

She sank down, the only response possible to fight that savage tugging, and dug her fingers into the stony ground Others did the saed away, pulled shrieking into the wave

The roaring snapped suddenly, like a breath caught in a throat, and Seren saw the base lift away, roll upward like a vast curtain, rising to reveal, once again, the battered slopes leading to the pass, then the pallid mountains and their blunt, ancient summits

The wave swiftly dwindled as it soared northward, its wild light reflected momentarily in a patchwork cascade across reflective surfaces far beloeeps of snow near the peaks and ice-polished stone blossoold, as if awakened to an unexpected sunset

Then the mountains were black silhouettes once more

Beyond the Vanishing behind the range

In the corner of her vision, Seren saw Nekal Bara sluht, across the ri like storht sky, this ti tentacles

She saw a strange ripple of grey against black on the facing

Then comprehension struck her ‘Lie flat! Everyone! Down!’