Chapter 71

• I don’t know what I thought I would achieve, and honestly, I didn’t have time to ponder either the science or the stupidity, but I throw air at a bear to save my hide. Then groan as logic slaps me in the head for being an idiot.
• Like something out of a Hollywood movie, I watch in wide-eyed disbelief as an almost invisible force hits the bear and ripples the air around it, sending the milky veil into a shimmering, flowing movement, like mesmerizing water after a rock is thrown in. It makes its body indent crazily like I just rammed it with a truck at speed, and for a millisecond, time slows down as I take this all in. It’s thrown back over three times in the distance it threw me, flying high in an arc through the clearing, and lands spectacularly with a shuddering thud on the floor below the tree line. I swear the ground quakes with force and reverberates through my healing body, bringing a calm to the forest that was not there before. Complete silence as everything stops, and all of nature pauses to say, ‘What in the hell was that?’.
• The air pulsates around it silently, the veil moving over and away like I blew a candle, and the smoke disperses in the waves of breath into nothingness. With an erratic heartbeat, panting, hunched up in my poised pose but dumbstruck and blinking at it. Disappearing like it never was, and I’m as shocked as the damn bear at what I just did, sitting stupefied, watching in complete disbelief.