Sneak away
Tess stomped out of the bathroom to the large dining room. Her peeled eyes searched for the chap among the standing figures. Most of the family members had risen from their seats and so had her so-called teammates.
Zino was nowhere in the room. Lanse stood in a corner talking to his new lady friend. Zack and Szedra fascinated themselves with paintings while they listened to the history from rambling mouths. But where was the chap?
The table behind the grille he sat around was empty. Tess activated her ability and it worked. She was no longer the shattered and trapped girl but someone who was going to make everything align with her new goal.
All the pain and anger she had channeled into an overflowing harness of energy, and she was going to use it to take down both the beast Sybervirian and the Leak. But she needed to know if it stopped raining on the surface that was some thousands of feet above them.