[A/N: This bonus chapter is thanks to PettyEnigma!!! It's been a while, but thanks so much man I really appreciate the super gift.]
The sky answered Simon's roar.
Thunder struck from every direction. The clouds folded inward, and a tremor passed through the ruined city into the ground beyond it.
Far from Velmora, stones jumped along the roads. Fractures opened across slopes that had survived the previous strikes.
Simon's heart answered the thunder.
Badum
Every part of him felt awake. His wing vents opened and closed without conscious instruction. Crimson sparks leapt between his fingers, and the cube's nine currents turned so quickly that their separate paths blurred.
His injuries still hurt.
Yet the pause between strikes had begun feeling like an inconvenience.
Above him, the tribulation stopped preparing its attacks separately.
