“You did more than make it seize,” Torin said with a grin. “Most that I have seen channel lightning do it from a good distance away. Whatever possessed you to grab hold of it, I don’t know, but I am glad for it.”
“And you,” Alara said, changing the subject, “are you just impervious to everything. I’m surprised that you didn’t just wrestle the creature into submission.”
“Bah,” he said, waving off the praise, “it would have taken me down eventually. I tried slashing at it when I realized that the guns would never be enough, but the damned this thing was too fast.”
They lapsed back into silence for a time after that; her, tying her long hair back with several bands since she didn’t think there was the time to properly braid it, and him playing with the cuff made of strange metal. When she
