Don't belong here (Almaz)

[Jay Carpenter]

Breathing heavy. Ready for the return. He watched the shimmering dome grow. Covering them both. Expecting something to happen. But from it, nothing spun out. A shield? He thought Jay was wild and out of control. Going to hurt people. Shit. Jay didn’t realize there were so many people. He craned his neck upward. Turned in a slow circle. Blood lust clear from those watching.

It was the pull of the power sensing its own kind that tugged his attention away. Wanted to conquer it, dominate it. Nox basically threw the white flag. The dome taunted. Begged him to test its limits. But Jay simply shook his head. Nox didn’t even think he was worth fighting. He may as well have been dead to the other man. And if he wasn’t going to fight, Jay wasn’t going to attack a man unwilling to defend himself.

He assumed this was going to be the last time he saw Nox. At least. It was the last time he saw the friend he knew before. Covered in blood. Bruises. Another corpse. Another face to add to the list of those gone.

He turned and wove ropes of the power around the gate bars that they were dumb enough to think locked them in.  Wrenching it was as easy as flicking blood from his sleeve. He wanted to get the fuck out of there.