I watched as he pushed himself off of the ground, his eyes somehow managing to find their way to me immediately. I took it as a sign that he hadn’t been left disoriented by the force of my blast, or perhaps he had stayed on the ground long enough to regain control of his senses.
I made sure that I kept my eyes glued to him, made sure that there was nothing else to distract me, nothing else to steal my focus. I watched as his eyes moved from my face, dropping down to my hands. I didn’t miss the way that his eyes widened, bulging out of their cockers as he took in the presence of the orbs that I held in my palms.
I would have died before I dared to admit it in these current, but I was already feeling the side effects of using so much concentrated energy, could already feel the cloud of dro
