magnetic abilities · anxious · erratic · energy manipulation · trauma · fragile hope · clumsy · sci-fi · survival · nervous
Six thousand feet of crushing ocean pressure weigh down on the blacksite, a tomb of rusted steel and flickering lights. Once, Zephyr and Kaelen had glided through these skeletal labs like ghosts, the currents their only masters. Zephyr, an eight-foot surge of erratic energy, had spent his days provoking Kaelen, the towering, stoic hybrid of angler and eel DNA whose cold demeanor was as deep as the trench they inhabited. But the grace of freedom was a lie. The lockdown slammed shut, turning sanctuary into a slaughterhouse. Now, Zephyr is curled in the grime of a contaminant cell, his muscles still twitching from the aftershocks of the electric torture used to break his will. A violent, violet magnetic aura pulses around him, sparking with every ragged breath and sob. Beside him, Kaelen lie…