12-13-2018, 07:14 PM
Ivan listened, filing away Nox's suggestions. In truth, they were the kind of instinctual things that might come to him. Brute force stuff. Not the directional one, of course. He remembered the weave but did not have the skill to make it himself. Not yet.
And then Nox wove something else of ghost, almost like a blade though the edges were dulled. Nox moved it quickly and..... it was like something sliced through his connection to the power. The small rope he had been holding was cut and Ivan lost the power, felt it drain out of him, as if a switch had been flipped.
More than that, there was a barrier, now, between him and the source. He could sense it there, waiting for him, but he couldn't reach it. He tried to get to the edges of the shield, to go around it but just as he reached it, he found himself at the very center, as if it wrapped around into itself somehow.
It felt terrible and his eyes went wide with panic. He was hammering at the shield, trying to break it. But the harder he struck the stronger it seemed and the more it pushed back.
Only Nox's calm and lazy tone kept him from physically reaching over and beating the living shit out of him. And then Ivan remembered how Nox had provoked him in the tunnels, helped him to break through his handicap, so that he could seize the power at will.
Ivan calmed himself, taking deep breaths, nodding. This was very useful. The more he thought about it, he realized it was genius. It had been one of their worries at Domovoi. How do you hold a channeler? Drugs worked. And he remembered Nox freaking out at the needle.
But a drugged up person couldn't be interrogated. And there were risks. Nox freaking out, again, came to mind, the wall of air. This, though....this was a game changer. They'd need more channelers joining Domovoi, though. Ivan wasn't gonna be a jailer with no life.
Funny. He was thinking as a cop again. And of his future with Domovoi. Well, he had to. He had family to protect. And Brandon wasn't gonna do it.
This wouldn't help with Yun- not unless she had a channeler working for her. Which, clearly, she wanted. Nice to have this in his pocket.
Thankfully Nox let the shield go and immediately Ivan seized the power, straining to hold as much as he could. Good. Nothing lost.
He smiled at the man. "You've given me some things to work on," nodding at the slaggy rock pawns.
Fine motor control. Multiple weaves. Something occured to him. Domovoi. And if Yun did get someone else. "What about if you are fighting a channeler and they try to do something to you. Seize you with air. You said it's hard to shield when they have a good chunk of the power. Do you try to block it?"
That dull blade....hmm. "Can ghost blades cut weaves too? I mean in addition to your hold on the power? If you make it sharper?"
And then Nox wove something else of ghost, almost like a blade though the edges were dulled. Nox moved it quickly and..... it was like something sliced through his connection to the power. The small rope he had been holding was cut and Ivan lost the power, felt it drain out of him, as if a switch had been flipped.
More than that, there was a barrier, now, between him and the source. He could sense it there, waiting for him, but he couldn't reach it. He tried to get to the edges of the shield, to go around it but just as he reached it, he found himself at the very center, as if it wrapped around into itself somehow.
It felt terrible and his eyes went wide with panic. He was hammering at the shield, trying to break it. But the harder he struck the stronger it seemed and the more it pushed back.
Only Nox's calm and lazy tone kept him from physically reaching over and beating the living shit out of him. And then Ivan remembered how Nox had provoked him in the tunnels, helped him to break through his handicap, so that he could seize the power at will.
Ivan calmed himself, taking deep breaths, nodding. This was very useful. The more he thought about it, he realized it was genius. It had been one of their worries at Domovoi. How do you hold a channeler? Drugs worked. And he remembered Nox freaking out at the needle.
But a drugged up person couldn't be interrogated. And there were risks. Nox freaking out, again, came to mind, the wall of air. This, though....this was a game changer. They'd need more channelers joining Domovoi, though. Ivan wasn't gonna be a jailer with no life.
Funny. He was thinking as a cop again. And of his future with Domovoi. Well, he had to. He had family to protect. And Brandon wasn't gonna do it.
This wouldn't help with Yun- not unless she had a channeler working for her. Which, clearly, she wanted. Nice to have this in his pocket.
Thankfully Nox let the shield go and immediately Ivan seized the power, straining to hold as much as he could. Good. Nothing lost.
He smiled at the man. "You've given me some things to work on," nodding at the slaggy rock pawns.
Fine motor control. Multiple weaves. Something occured to him. Domovoi. And if Yun did get someone else. "What about if you are fighting a channeler and they try to do something to you. Seize you with air. You said it's hard to shield when they have a good chunk of the power. Do you try to block it?"
That dull blade....hmm. "Can ghost blades cut weaves too? I mean in addition to your hold on the power? If you make it sharper?"