03-12-2014, 03:59 PM
Nixie couldn't hear a thing other than her own rough breathing that echoed through her mind, sounding like someone else's breathing. Was that her? She counted, and counted again. She couldn't even count the numbers correctly. She was vaguely aware that people near her were speaking, but she couldn't be bothered with that now, lest she be taken over by the darkness.
Suddenly, the voices were back. Flooding her mind, confusing her own thoughts and the counting even more. Nixie was unable to hold the darkness off any longer. Her internal battle had been lost, once again. In that moment, the one where her heart suddenly calms and her breathing nearly stops, and then all goes dark and silent... it didn't.
Instead, her mind registered something else all together. Someone was touching her. In her state of feeling completely helpless, with anxiety clouding her mind, her new power kicked in like a defense mechanism.
Energy built up all the while Nixie's anxiety and paranoia rose, and as she turned instinctively to remove the hand upon her shoulder as if it were some kind of poisonous spider, the energy burst from her like a small explosion. It would appear to anyone, that Nixie had turned and aimed the energy at Corynn on purpose, though that was not the case.
Corynn would certainly be sent back at least ten feet or so. Nixie would sit there for a moment, nothing registering for a long time as she stared at Corynn. She would be calm now, having aimed the energy built up from the anxiety and paranoia elsewhere, removing it from her body. Those voices were still there though, and those would be what snapped Nixie out of it.
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