Morwenna turned her gaze toward Valentina. It was a heavy, loaded look, the expression of a woman who had already finished the brutal mathematics of their survival and had arrived at the same terrifying conclusion as her partner.
She wasn't looking for hope; she was looking for a way to spend their remaining life.
"Morwenna," Valentina whispered, her voice cracking as the meteor's roar grew deafening.
WHHHHHHHH OOOOOOOOMMMMM!
The heat was becoming a physical weight, blistering the skin of her forearms.
"I am well aware of the cost, Valentina!" Morwenna snapped, her composure finally splintering into a fierce, jagged edge. "I know exactly what three seconds of maximum density spatial distortion, applied at point-blank range to an elementally charged geological mass, will do to my energy reserves."
"It will hollow me out... and it will leave my veins feeling like they're filled with broken glass and my soul feeling like a burnt husk!"
