DERRICK POV
She did it.
Kai freaking did it.
Monster confetti. That’s what she’d called it, and Goddess help me, she hadn’t been exaggerating. There were literal chunks of… whatever those stitched abominations used to be… dripping from the walls, raining from the ceiling, sloshing across my feet like some grotesque snowstorm made of slime and bone.
And Dalton? Poor Dalton looked like he wanted to vomit directly into his keyboard. His whole body had recoiled when the explosion went off, shoulders curling in like he was trying to protect his ribs from the blastwave. His wide eyes were stuck on the pile of gore that had once been a nightmare factory’s prized creations.
I couldn’t blame him. I hadn’t expected that either.
I mean, I’d seen Kai throw lightning, and a lot of other things, b
