Ren was confused…
What happened was difficult to categorize precisely.
Selthia folded.
Ren's first interpretation was pain, that reading lasted approximately three seconds, which was the time it took to register that the sound Selthia was making wasn't the sound a person made when something hurt.
It didn't have the right shape for pain…
It was involuntary and sharp, yeah… But broken at the edges.
It seemed to be the kind of sound that escapes when the body produces it before the mind can decide whether to allow it.
A weird sound he also had never heard coming from someone with a doubled voice and this degree of mutation.
But he wasn't going to let himself be distracted just to process what it actually was... Not right now.
She straightened with visible effort, pulling herself back together. "Stop or I'll explode!"
"Don't pretend," said Ren, pushing his hands to the front as she kept backing up. "I figured it out a while ago."
