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No Wasting powers like yours is stupid If you joined us, we could rule all the waters in the world
Yeah, because turning randeuryou Besides, she should give up the whole recruit It didn’t happen when she killedto happen now
Tempest, we could help you
I don’t want your help I was also circling now, so that the two of us wereeach other’sin an effort to keep the other in our sights
Everything inside ofout while he was still trying to talk ain, Jared’s training raised its head and I knew I had to stay alert, wary, be ready to deflect his move, whichout all right with Scylla, but only because her attention had been fractured Sabyn was focused entirely onmotion would mean my death The smile on his face told, endless, exhaustingfor the other toout a little Mahina still hadn’t moved, hadn’t said a word
Every instinct I had, every ounce of friendship inside of me, screamed to look at her, to check on her even if it was only visually But I knew that as soon as I did, as soon as I glanced away, that one moment of inattention would be the end of me I resisted the pull, stayed focused on Sabyn
That intense focus was the only thing that saved my life
When Sabyn struck, it wasn’t the in-your-face assault I was used to Wasn’t silver arrows or massive blasts of power Instead, it was subtle, insidious At least at first
The water around ue wave coh, spurred by the amount of power concentrated in such a small area But then I realized the movement wasn’t just natural current The water was actually spinning aroundfaster and faster, locking h it, but itso fast that the centrifugal force ills to breathe The world was going gray, and I knew I had to do so fast if I was to have any chance at all, but the lack of oxygen--co inside of h now, little Teinning It only gets worse from here--unless you want to put a stop to it All you have to do is join us and this can go away
As he spoke, the whirlpool got tighter and tighter until I swear I could feel, not just the water, but also Sabyn’s fingers aroundh he was several feet away Swear your allegiance to Tiaht even let your little pet huet out the words
Sabyn’s hands felt like they rapped aroundI clawed at them, tried to pry them away, but it was iible there Only the sensation of being strangled, plus the knowledge that tio way back, Sabyn said And I must admit, I have so to be a lot of fun watching him die But that doesn’t ainst him Of course, it’s kind of hard to hate hihed Which he’ll be, very soon I think he’s only got about an hour of oxygen left in the tank Tiaet hi way to the surface
I shuddered in horror and fear, which only h louder He was so sure of himself, so proud of the way he and Tia two of the people I cared aboutat e burned inall of this Sabyn, whom the merQueen had trusted Sabyn, whoave th to stop fighting the whirlpool, to stop struggling for air, to just relax into it It was obvious that Sabyn felt my sudden surrender and was instantly suspicious--I could feel it in the way his body tensed, see it in the wary look in his eyes as he watched ivenI needed My hands dropped away froh electricity from the ocean to power a small city Then I reached for hih to lower his guard a second ti thousands of volts of electricity--via lightning--straight into his chest, directly at his heart
He didn’t have a clue what hit him
Chapter 33
The whirlpool didn’t so much die down as explode outhen Sabyn stu his chest As the water seethed and roiled around us, I watched, completely dispassionate, as he fell to the floor of the ship And then I hit hih hi flesh even as it split the skin of his abdoht, but I didn’t flinch I don’t know if that said so
Quickly backing away, I hauled Mahina up and threw her overto turn ht be down but he wasn’t necessarily out--I’d been around sea creatures long enough to kno that went
And sure enough, just as we reached the hatch, the door slammed shut The waves caused by the abrupth carrying Mahina, that they slammed me into a wall My concentration wavered for only a second, but like what had happened with Sabyn, the lapse was just long enough for hih-pitched vibration that filled the entire engine roo the water with a noise so piercing and shrill that it was impossible to bear I screamed, slammed my hands to my ears, but it didn’t seem to matter The vibration wasn’t just outside any me apart
I dropped to my knees in an effort to escape the sound I wanted it to stop, needed it to stop, but since I had no idea how Sabyn was doing it, I couldn’t even begin to think of how to counter Of course, that was assuht now, the only idea running throughto explode Already, I could feel blood, thick and viscous, leaking out of uely if thison I knew I should be concerned, but the noise made it impossible to do more than formulate that emotion in theory