Let me take it, Carl said in her mind. Channel the power into me. I can handle it. I will take it for you.
With everything that was left of her, Violet reached out to Carl. She felt them connect, the thinnest thread of connection--but it was enough. She felt him drawing the power from her, and with all her strength, she pushed it toward him.
Violet pushed and he pulled, and the space inside her began to clear. Without the power pressing down on her, she felt more like herself and could push even harder.
She felt Carl's alarm as the power started to flood back into her. She pushed back even harder. The harder she pushed against it, the more she began to understand it. It was a stubborn power that did not belong inside of Carl. It had been constructed to hurt him, and it needed to be dest
