CHAPTER THIRTY ONE
Chris and Malcolm stood face to face in the alleyway outside the Lion Inn. The sky was starting to darken. All around them stood the rest of the Obsidian kids. The atmosphere was electric, the tension between Malcolm and Chris palpable.
Chris knew he only had one shot at this. If Malcolm beat him again in front of everyone then he’d never win their respect and take his position as leader. But he was also aware that the powers that had come to him so far were in their infancy. He had no idea how to really control them, or what they even did. Besides melting things and being able to move more quickly, he had no idea what powers the universe had actually decided to imbue him with. Malcolm had already bragged about his own atomic specialism, which was supposedly the strong
