[ But she can barely hear herself say it. Her ears are still ringing, even after the sounds around her have leveled out. Faith's elbow feels broken on Laura's face. Instinct has the light in her chest flaring brighter as the sensation seesaws back over, exaggerating instead the pain in Laura's face with a power Faith doesn't understand and shouldn't have.
So it goes.
The backlash only happens with contact. Faith pulls back to flinch away from the contact she thinks is causing this -- it has to be the empathy bond, it can't be her -- and she assesses Laura, recognizing then that she must be one of the Displaced, that this is the only way it would happen that their chests would glow and the pain would share. That power, though, doesn't make sense.
A sensible person might stop and ask for answers. Faith just tries to go at her again, this time aiming the punch at her stomach, carefully instead, trying not to touch skin. (She can't take Laura's power without skin contact. It does not occur to her, yet, that this is what happened to neutralize the sensory overload.) ]
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[ But she can barely hear herself say it. Her ears are still ringing, even after the sounds around her have leveled out. Faith's elbow feels broken on Laura's face. Instinct has the light in her chest flaring brighter as the sensation seesaws back over, exaggerating instead the pain in Laura's face with a power Faith doesn't understand and shouldn't have.
So it goes.
The backlash only happens with contact. Faith pulls back to flinch away from the contact she thinks is causing this -- it has to be the empathy bond, it can't be her -- and she assesses Laura, recognizing then that she must be one of the Displaced, that this is the only way it would happen that their chests would glow and the pain would share. That power, though, doesn't make sense.
A sensible person might stop and ask for answers. Faith just tries to go at her again, this time aiming the punch at her stomach, carefully instead, trying not to touch skin. (She can't take Laura's power without skin contact. It does not occur to her, yet, that this is what happened to neutralize the sensory overload.) ]