Storm Hammer lost track of time, and the only thing she knew was the pain. She repeatedly tried to activate her power over Time but like a raw wound that had been scrapped to the bone, anytime she touched the Dan, her chest exploded, it was not her Dan that was faulty, it was that both Time itself and the people around her were so resistant to the influence of her Dan.
After trying to stop time for the third time, Storm Hammer went numb in horror when the new senses she had developed as she reached her First Dan began to fade. She knew of Ascendants that suffered Calamitous damages and their ranking dropped, but those Ascendants were literally taken to the edge of death and despite the damages she was suffering, she had lost not more than thirty percent of her Core Aura. How was she losing her Dan this easily?
