Darkness filled her vision as the dizziness set in. She was barely aware of stumbling sideways and crashing into the front wall of a tanner’s shop. Sweet Mercy, the pain! It took everything she had to turn and face her enemy.
The soldier hoisted up his rifle, taking aim.
Screaming in ragged desperation, Desa lashed out with a blast of kinetic energy that knocked the man off his feet. He landed on his backside, the rifle going off and firing a bullet into the sky.
Undaunted, he stood up and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. “Did you know,” he began in Hanak Tuvar’s chorus voice. “That when I take direct control of a body, I can manipulate your world?”
“Really?” Desa asked, striding into the middle of the road.
“Just like Adele.”
He stretched a hand toward her, and Desa heard
