The void spear launched.
Time didn't slow. That was a lie they told you in movies. Time kept its normal pace while Natalia watched the concentrated darkness streak toward the man she loved.
She threw everything.
Not just her telekinesis. Not just her power.
Everything.
Her fear. Her rage. Her obsession. Her jealousy. Her pride. Every wall she'd ever built to keep herself safe, every mask she'd worn to survive her father's expectations, every cold word and cruel thought and desperate, aching need that she'd buried so deep she'd forgotten it existed.
She threw her entire soul at that void spear.
And something inside her shattered.
The sensation was indescribable. Like chains she'd never known existed suddenly snapping free. Like a door she'd been pressing against her whole life finally giving way. Like drowning in reverse, gasping up into air after a lifetime underwater.
A voice that wasn't a voice echoed through her being.
Bond Rank 10: Covenant Established.
