For a flicker of a second, Lilith's gaze moved towards the storm calculating and measuring. Then the air around them twisted and darkness swallowed them.
They reappeared at the very edge of the storm, their elements keeping them afloat above water.
They were closer than anyone had dared to stand.
The difference was immediate, the air felt as though it was pressing down on them. It was as if the storm was alive, pushing back against them.
The roar of the storm was deafening there. Wind screamed past them sharp enough to cut if Atheline hadn't been regulating it around them.
The ocean churned below, black and violent, rising and collapsing in unnatural patterns.
For a second nothing happened. The storm was still reacting to the earlier attack without the knowledge that someone had passed its first layer of defence.
His hand tightened around her.
'Please light ... protect us'
"Don't stop," he said.
"I won't. "
