The interior space held the silence of something that had been running constantly and was starting to understand it was about to stop.
Selthia stood still for a moment and then began accumulating power.
The interior space responded, the purple at the margins moving toward the center with the momentum of energy that had the full field behind it.
Then the field stopped accumulating to go in her direction and continued toward the center with her input; toward her feet, in fact, in the way that happened when a system designed to amplify started pushing from the wrong end.
The purple that should have kept expanding around had stopped.
A few seconds passed…
Then it even started retreating, not fast, but in the wrong direction for Selthia, and the more power she accumulated for the attack she was building the faster it retreated, as if the system that should have been amplifying her with excess to spare was now running in reverse at her own expense.
