Lanse, Zack, Szedra, and Zino's blue glowing eyes popped wider at their struggling teammate. Blood soaked the white lashes at Tess's tightly shut eyes, and she fidgeted all over. Her dark red skin got darker and the veins at her neck bulged towards her face. Unlike them, she still held her neck, unable to breathe in the void. But why was she still suffocating while they could breathe?
Tess squeezed her neck and shut her eyes tight from the pain exploding in her chest. Each empty gasp flashed white light through her head. But an even greater panic flooded through her body from her claws about to shoot from her fingertips. The exploding pain pushed the heat further up her throat, but she forced the scream back.
She couldn't risk her claws coming out, her eyes turning creepy black, or her mouth ripping apart. Not with her teammates before her. They couldn't know what she was, or they would see her as something to be despised.
