With no other options left Jess did the unthinkable. He gathered all the power he could, then blasted it at Ali. Despite everything that had happened, despite knowing it wasn’t really Ali, tears still flowed down his cheeks as he unleashed the attack.
Ali just laughed, shrugging off the attack and continuing her own. Jess slumped in her grip. He had nothing left to give. His resistance to the attack was crumbling rapidly. Soon, very soon, it would all be over.
The attack suddenly changed nature. White hot pain poured through every nerve in his body. Jess writhed in Ali’s grasp, struggling to form a coherent thought. Was this it? Was it all over? Or had the Taint broken through only to face a final defence? Was the pain a good thing?
The chaotic world around him wavered, flic
