Chapter 63The attacks came all at once, from all directions. I'd been bracing myself, but it wasn't nearly enough.
The light in the vortex turned red, and the current went wild, hurling me around like a kite in a hurricane. Searing heat and deafening noise erupted around me with crushing force. At the same time, fierce pains tore at my insides, like razor-sharp claws slicing through my organs and muscles.
And then there was the mental assault. Atlantis' mind punched into my head like a cattle prod, blazing with white-hot fire. I screamed as probes leaped off and burrowed into my brain, tunneling through the gray matter like sparks from a welding torch sizzling through ice.
Marshalling my rage and strength, I fought back. Clashed with the claws in my guts, wrestling them to a stand
