“How do you feel right now?” Jabari asked, stretching his arm and wincing.
“What?” she asked, bewildered. Was this man crazy?
“How do you feel right now?” he asked, punctuating each word like she was a child.
“Fine,” she spat. Was taunting her supposed to be stress-relieving or something?
“Good.”
“Why is that good?” Badr asked skeptically.
“Because we have learned several things from those two incidents. One,” Jabari said, holding up a finger, “we learned that anger doesn’t trigger your abilities in the same way that fear does. I’m not saying that it never will, but in both instances you were scared and your abilities reacted. But now that you are angry, nothing.” He took a breath and the gash on his cheek started to heal. “Two, we learned what your ‘explosion’ actually is.”
“We did
