Kael and Thea at the circle's perimeter.
They touched their runes simultaneously.
Channeled everything they had.
Power EXPLODED upward. Instant and overwhelming.
Silver-white light shooting into the sky like a pillar connecting the earth to heaven.
The twelve master runes are blazing. Energy walls form between them, creating a cage of pure Moonbane power.
The sound was deafening. Like reality itself screaming.
Light so bright I had to shield my eyes. Heat washing over me in waves.
The cage formed in seconds. Perfect geometric dome. Fifty feet across. Thirty feet high.
Walls humming with contained force.
The monster realized—too late—that it was trapped.
It roared. Betrayal. Rage beyond measure.
Then it changed.
At me.
Inside the cage, time seemed to slow.
The monster—Dan
