Then she saw him, lying on the ground in a puddle of blood, his sightless eyes staring up at her, accusing. Further inside the room, two strangers filled the space with their dirty lust. Another man waited, undoing his pants.
It rose through her body, lighting her blood on fire. It grew within her skull, latched on to the agony, and turned it into rage so hot, so primal, it could only be called the budding of Wrath. Power ripped from her body, blinding her momentarily. She clutched the two disgusting minds as her teachers had taught her, holding them within her newly awakened grip. With a shot of power beyond anything the town had seen so far, she stabbed into their minds.
The men screamed. Fingers white as they clutched their heads, they sank to the ground in agony. Panting, half-delirious, the girl turned. Headed out into the night. This had to be stopped. These men had to be dealt with. Her town must be protected. Everywhere her gaze touched was ruin.
Blazing houses, bloodied people—her friends, her neighbors. Keshla lay across the lane, face in the dirt, blood matting her hair.
Someone else lay in a boneless heap beyond that. Pain such that Shanti had never experienced brewed, pumping out more power, unlocking hidden depths, power bubbling up, replacing the horror, giving purpose to her tears.
She walked along the lane and threw her mind wide, touching everything in range. She clutched foreign minds in a death grip before blasting them with a shot of power. New screams wrenched the night.
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You will continue to receive exclusive offers in your inbox. It used to be so loud. So much chatter, beating, drumming, buzzing buzzing buzzing. The buzzing of it all. It used to keep him awake at night, inescapable, like mites crawling through his veins.
Sometimes he would scratch at his arms until they bled, but even the bleeding never dampened the buzzing. Until it stopped. All the lines to and from the world, all the hungry beings clawing and sucking and pawing at it, everything cut off.
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