We Have A More Urgent Problem

"Aaaaaaaarrrrbblblblblboob!"

Hearing the screams of agony being muffled in their bubbles as quickly as they had formed around him, Jake's expression changed. Upon contact with such pure Lumyst Water, the first baptism had been explosively triggered.

Jake was safe for the moment, but feeling the concentrated flow of vital energy seeping into him through every pore, pressing on his tissues, he could only imagine what the others were enduring. A glance at Hephais and Lysandra told him that they were okay for now, but he couldn't say the same for the rest.

Without further ado, although he had promised to let the others fend for themselves, he emitted a burst of Space Lumyst, slicing through the currents on his path to rejoin the rest of his squad. The mass of water was split for a fraction of a second, a moment he used to cross the distance in one motion.