Desa settled onto the cobblestones with only the slightest impact, crouching instinctively to cushion the blow. She straightened a moment later, killed her Gravity-Sink and marched across the plaza.
Kalia joined her, gently alighting on the ground and following in her wake. Desa couldn’t help but smile. Ten years ago, her partner would have fallen on her a*s after a jump like that. Kalia had never been very skilled when it came to manipulating gravity. But she was learning!
Desa halted abruptly, noticing a blackened corpse with smoke still rising from its smouldering clothes. Had the Guardians turned on each other? She couldn’t fathom how this might be Larani’s doing. The Leyrians did not possess weapons that could inflict that kind of damage. Unless…
“She must have reflected his lightn
