Faith covered her eyes and knelt on the ground, not wanting to witness what was about to happen, convinced that Layton could not hit Jennifer in that specific way.
Having no other choice, the young janitor, who was no longer surprised at anything, followed without breathing the instructions of red-eyes. When his hand was in the right position, he relaxed his arm muscles, which until that instant were stretched by agitation.
Something that had never occurred happened inside his body: a sensation similar to the chills he felt behind his back travelled through his shoulder and then his arm, moving like a wave of electrons and activating every muscle it went through.
At the end of its journey, which lasted just over a second, this 'wave' stopped in Layton's hand, which moved at great speed forward, hitting Jennifer's back of the head with a fast and light movement.
*tap*
