2.39 The Serpent (1)

Frozen. Everything around me was completely still, like it was frozen with a glimmering sheen coating everything and everyone but me.

“What the hell?”

My hands were still stretched out, and my muscles were still flexed with the cool energy that exploded from my fingertips.

“Did you freeze them? What was that?”

My hands dropped to my sides, and I hesitantly took steps towards Estel and Boyd. Boyd’s body still looked bound, but the violet cords of power were no longer surrounding him. Not visibly. His body was contorted in place, like they were still there. Fur was lining every inch of his skin, and his snout was fully formed.

“They aren’t frozen,” I said to Cortina as I felt the heat of their bodies. “Not like that.”

Estel and Boyd remained unmoving, not even breathing as I walked cautiously around them, skirting between them, squeezing my body through the slender space between them, their body warmth pushed back at me.

I could feel the dark energy buzzing on the surface of Boyd