Page 317 of Seer Prophet

Whoever had stepped between us was still there, I realized.

“Get the fuck out of the way!” I shouted at his back.

I reached for him, meaning to shove him physically away from both of us, before Revik snapped his spine?but before I could, his body jerked sideways as if he’d been hit by a wrecking ball. I didn’t follow the motion with my eyes.

I had enough presence of mind to know that I couldn’t, but I felt whoever it was hit hard against the metal bars of the cage, a good fifteen feet from where we stood.

Silence fell over the space.

The other seers stood around us, paralyzed.

For another long breath, I think I might have been paralyzed too, staring up at Revik even as fear coursed through my light.

Unlike Revik with me right now, I didn’t want to hurt him.

That not wanting to hurt him would not help me.

It wouldn’t help Lily.

My mind spent less than a millisecond on that knowing, but it sent terror through me.

Somewhere in that, my light flicked out, touching the bare edges of the body now crumpled on the cement floor like a broken doll. I tasted it only long enough to recognize the high-cheekboned face, the long black hair that fell over his neck, his green, violet-rimmed eyes. I could feel those eyes closed. I knew they may never open again, but I knew who it was, even though I couldn’t look for long, not even with my light.

Dalejem.

Dalejem stepped between me and Revik.

He just saved my life.

Well?temporarily, anyway.

Around me, voices erupted.

I felt hands on my arms, pulling me back, but I knew it wouldn’t do any good. I didn’t even waste the breath or my concentration to tell them that, but continued to stare at Revik, my light charged, still wound densely into thealeimicstructures I used for the telekinesis.

Unfortunately, so was his. I could see it in his eyes, even as that high frequency of light vibrated my skin.

When they grabbed hold of me a second time, I elbowed them off, gasping as I watched the structures in Revik’s light ignite again.

“Get back!” I shouted, not tearing my eyes off his face. “Get back! Fuck! Are you stupid?”

I managed to writhe free of them?right before I slammed out at Revik with my light.

The force of my blow threw the seers away from me.

It also threw Revik’s back into the bars of the nearest cage.

I saw his eyes close, a bare shimmer of pain in his long body, but he didn’t lose his balance.

He didn’t lose his focus, either.

Before I could take a breath, he hit out at me with his light?a fuck of a lot harder than I’d hit him. The thought flashed in me again of how much harder it would be to stop him when I was terrified of hurting him. Unlike me, he threw everything he had at me the second that gap hit after I’d expelled most of my light.

My feet left the ground.

It happened fast, so fast, my vision blurred, blinding me again.

I barely had time to construct a shield?something Revik, incidentally, insisted I learn, hammering it into me, again and again?but I managed it somehow midair.

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