The ever darkening light, so bright that it streamed through the skin on Tia's throat, traveled up her neck and coalesced in her mouth, forming a chaotically shimmering ball of darkness that covered over all her teeth. It was strange to see a darkness that was bright, a darkness so black that even in night, it stood out, overshadowing shadows, but that made the incoming attack that much more ominous.
With a burst of magical energy that flattened the grasses around her, Tia loosed a beam of pure, life absorbing black that reached Azhar in an instant, very much like a laser. An explosion of darkness erupted around the point of impact, swelling out waves of surging shadows that billowed upwards like flames caught in the wind, swirling upwards in a spiraling pillar over a dozen meters high.
