Feng jolted, startled from her grief. Her sobs cut short as protective instinct rushed through her.
"!!"
She threw herself between the incoming aquamarine-colored essence and Quinlan with her arms spread. But it did not stop, moving through her effortlessly. Not merely dodging her, but passing through her flesh and bones as if she wasn't even real.
And then it reached Quinlan and sank into his abdomen in a swirl of luminous light. His body flinched. His eyes flickered with a flash of cool blue.
Before the moment could even settle, a second shard tore across the field.
This one shimmered green. Not the earthy green of forests, but the translucent, flickering green of sky and speed. It looked like a blade of mist, a current of wind made manifest.
It shot from God Venthros's headless corpse, tracing a twisting path through smoke and ruin. Unlike the first, this one didn't hover. It raced, unhindered by gravity or sound, so fast the eye could barely follow it.
