Ethan listened to everyone's account of what had happened. To say he was pleasantly surprised would be an understatement.
For a moment, he simply sat in stunned silence, the overlapping voices fading into a dull murmur. His thoughts refused to line up; the sheer absurdity of it all left him grasping for logic that refused to come.
He immediately focused his senses inward, examining his own body.
His energy pathways felt the same as ever, with no immediate signs of change. His body was still like a sieve, incapable of retaining a single drop of ambient energy.
But when he sank his consciousness deep into his core, the sight that greeted him was staggering.
His core, once a void of absolute darkness, was now encircled by two bands of golden light. They spun around it, one horizontal, one vertical, intersecting to form a simple, celestial orrery.
