The cold connector tip of the Frequency Shifter pressed firmly against the center of Delon's cracked chest plate with a sharp, heavy click. For a split second, his breath caught in his throat as the raw metal made contact with the damaged polymer casing. He expected a sudden surge of agonizing friction or a catastrophic warning alert to echo through his tracking arrays, but instead, an entirely foreign sensation flooded his body. A profound, enveloping warmth began to course directly through his neural pathways, spreading outward from his sternum like a gentle wave of liquid heat.
The unstable, jagged vibrations that had been rattling his rib cage since the tower collapse suddenly began to decelerate. It was a strange, fluid transition. The constant, sub-surface tremor of the Echo-V cor
