When Tania peeled open her eyes, she found herself looking at Eltanin. He was stroking her back gently and watching her with a worried expression. "Tania!" he said when he saw that she was awake. He gathered her close to his chest and embraced her hard. He started rocking her. "I am so sorry," he muttered. "I am so sorry!"
She closed her eyes again, savoring his mist and brine smell. She remembered how the dark tendrils of Yunabi swirled around her. As they entered her, she felt as if her body was going to burst into a thousand pieces. She shrieked, asking Rolfe to stop it, but the arcana was beyond his control too. All she knew later was how painful it was getting and perhaps she was levitating in the air. Her back itched a lot as if lights sizzled and crackled, burning her skin. After that she lost all sense of the world.
