CREAK!
He felt the tension in his bones, the terrifying sensation of her will battling against his own mass. "You're not attacking my defenses directly, and you're not trying to break my skin or crush my bones with raw force."
A predatory, appreciative grin broke through his strained expression. "You're attacking the thing that lets me see you coming."
"You're blinding my foresight by warping the very light it relies on!"
"That's fifty years of insight if I've ever seen one, Headmaster!"
The compression intensified. A piece of jagged masonry, caught in the perimeter of the field, was accelerated toward Rex like a railgun slug.
WHIZZ BOOM!
It struck his shoulder with a sickening "CRUNCH!" the impact sending a spray of crimson blood across the grey stone. Rex didn't flinch, though the bone groaned under the sudden, violent stress.
