A thin coat of sweat already covered Elowen's brows.
The lettering floating before her wasn't clear in the slightest. It almost looked like tadpoles swimming through the air, twisting around one another so quickly that it was difficult to tell where one character ended and the next began.
Worse yet, their very presence burned her eyes. Just keeping her gaze on them made it feel as though something was slowly pulling strips from her psyche, and it wasn't long before the sweat on her skin had nothing to do with nerves anymore.
Her Resonant Frame was being overloaded.
Her heart was beating faster than it should, her glands were producing too much sweat, even her stomach had begun churning wildly. Every second she maintained eye contact with the Angelic characters, her body burned through a ridiculous amount of energy just trying to keep itself functioning normally.
Elowen wiped her brow.
"Calm down," she whispered to herself. "Breathe."
Slowly... In... Out...
She could do this.
