Chapter 100: Devouring Darkness
At first I gaped, not sure if he'd managed to transport himself somewhere else, an alternate ability not tied to the one I was sure he possessed. Until I felt the void space where he had been sitting, reminded of how he felt in the basement beneath the church, and understood. Reena stared in shock at that same spot, Mathias thrown back onto the floor on his butt, Henry flapping around the null feeling of the bench where Elijah had been perched as if unwilling to leave the last place he'd seen his new friend.
I lunged forward, my power snaking out while the emptiness that had engulfed the boy spread. This was different, and much more threatening than the simple attempt he'd made to protect and hide himself. No, this outflow of his power was a reaction, a fight rather than flight response, evolving very quickly-though his power felt like sludge on an inevitable path to devouring everything-into an attack.