Changes were happening all around him, but Laz didn't stir. He was still in a passed out state, laying away from where Maia had transcended as his body had been pushed aside when Ivana and Sylvia had moved him to get a better angle on moving Maia.
HIs body was wracked in pain and he was convulsing. A part of him could now understand why Maia was preventing him from absorbing even a shred of her power while trying to take a portion of his. But in the end, there was no free meal, for either of them.
Perhaps Maia's intentions were selfish, but at least she wasn't trying to cause harm to Laz in the process. Instead, she was just worried, as was Sylvia and Ivana, about what would happen to them and her people.
But none of that mattered to Laz. He had drawn into himself, focusing his mind on the changes happening within his center.
