☉NARIEL
I channeled my energy, shaping and controlling it into a round, glowing red orb that hovered in the air before me, swirling and pulsating with an arcane wave, suspended between my outstretched hands and the window of the dim-lit bathing chamber, bathed in the soft glow of candlelight.
But in an instant, the energy surged forward, blasting through the room, pushing me aside, shattering the window, and splintering the furniture. I shut my eyes, expecting the debris of the blast to crash down upon me, but nothing came. Nothing touched me. No splinter of wood, no shard of glass found its mark. None of it touched me as I dropped to the floor, my hands covering my face.
When I dared to look, I saw the debris suspended in the air, frozen, as if time itself had halted. There was a veil
