Lucy launched out of the tree line like a missile wrapped in lightning.
Every muscle in her body coiled tight as compressed springs, then released all at once. Her boots left scorch marks on the branch she'd kicked off from. Electricity danced across her skin in jagged patterns, bright enough to leave afterimages, crackling with the sound of a thousand sparklers igniting simultaneously. The air around her ionized, creating visible distortion waves that rippled outward from her passage.
"ARTHUR!!!"
Her fist cocked back, lightning condensing around her knuckles until the glow turned blue-white, so bright it would hurt to look at directly. She crossed fifty meters in under a second, trajectory aimed straight at the man standing calmly in the settlement's center.
