Screaming at the top of her lungs, Desa fired a blast of lightning.
Not at Anna.
At the fence.
Electricity surged through the metal and into the other woman’s body. Anna screeched as she was jolted forward. And then she fell to her knees, gasping for breath.
The arrogance of these people! Puffed-up politicians insisting that they represented an enlightened society and refusing to help those in need. Looking down their noses at her, dismissing her as some backward yokel. And these Keepers! So proud of their physical prowess. What was that next to the majesty of the Ether?
Desa marched across the arena, seizing the other woman’s shirt with one hand. Her fist pounded Anna’s face: once, twice, again. “You want to see power? I’ll show you power!”
She pulled her opponent up, spun her aroun
