[Bonus thanks to TheHonoredOne69 <3]
Nosphaleen still couldn't slow her heartbeat, no matter how much she tried to force herself back into the same calm she had maintained before Sylas entered the oasis.
He wasn't saying anything, and somehow that made the silence worse, since he only held her there while his gaze drifted through thoughts she couldn't begin to read.
Then his eyes flashed with a wild, almost uncontrollable light, and the air around them shuddered as though something invisible had just snapped into alignment.
A prickling sensation spread across Nosphaleen's skin until it felt as though trillions of tiny needles had pressed against her all at once. They didn't pierce deeply enough to hurt, yet the sensation reached far beyond anything physical, traveling through skin, flesh, Genes, Will, and into the deeper structures woven through all of them.
