Doctor Finn's eyes flew wide open, his glasses nearly sliding right off his nose in shock. "No…" The word came out as a stunned whisper. "It can't be."
Seraphine turned toward him on pure instinct. The strange silver glow vanished as fast as it had exploded into existence.
One moment raw power had been surging through every inch of her body, and the next it was completely gone.
The glowing crescent moon mark on her hand disappeared without a trace, the brilliant light faded, and the room settled back into something almost normal, if a room packed with completely stunned doctors could ever be called normal.
For several long seconds, nobody moved. Nobody spoke. No one seemed able to fully process the impossible thing they'd just witnessed. Then a sharp gasp shattered the heavy silence.
The warrior on the bed, Burke, slowly sat up, moving with careful wonder. His eyes widened as he swung his legs over the side of the bed. The doctors rushed forward in a panic. "Burke!"
