Page 69 (1/2)

That was the part I needed to listen to

Ignoring the soft, slurping noises Tia drunk alive, I focused instead on the burning I could feel inelectricity Closing e, and began to ay from the water around me, from the ocean beyond the boat, from the sea floor that beckoned tohot I could feel it radiating up fro unco around restlessly in a way they hadn’t even a few moments before It was only a matter of time before their skin broke and blistered like the skin of my stomach had--except this time it wasn’t fro no atteh I felt like there was ather, more power to consume, to build

There were nearly fifty people in the rooy of their own With , it wasn’t like I could , I started to pull that force inside me as well

My body trehteningto literally ignite That I was going to turn supernova and suck everyone and everything around me into the black hole I created

That fear was back, sharper and more real than it had ever been

But unlike the instance on the beach, there was nothing I could do to stop it this ti softer, less catastrophic Terrified, desperate, I had put my body in the driver’s seat and this was the result

I only hoped I didn’t end up hurting Kona or Mark or Mahina I reached out, tried to warn them, asked Kona to shield the three of them, but I wasn’t sure if Kona or Mahina could even hearpoint And still the electricity grew

As if fro themselves

Heard Mahina’s muttered What the hell! and Kona’son? But I didn’t respond to the I ever could be was focused on this wild, free, electric being I was beco This force that was about to be unleashed

And still th of it, until y of its own, untilup with, the energy that it could no longer contain

A shudder worked through me, a convulsion that started in my feet and shook my entire body in a close approximation of an epileptic seizure-- it to carry Again and again I seized and trembled, until the bunyip backed away in fear, and even Tialut herself on the power cocktail that was