"What the hell was that, Ross?!" Gwen was the first to react, her voice sharp with disbelief. She couldn't wrap her head around what she had just witnessed.
Sure, she'd always known something was unusual about Ross—his seeming invulnerability to physical attacks had made that clear.
But this?
Summoning a portal to God-knows-where right in the middle of the room?
That was a level of absurdity straight out of a sci-fi movie. And this wasn't some fiction. This was the real world.
Maya, on the other hand, stayed silent. She'd seen Ross perform unbelievable feats before, like incapacitating an entire legion of men and leaving them bound and helpless during the hotel basement massacre.
To her, it was easier to believe that Ross possessed advanced technology far beyond anything available to the public.
Clinging to this explanation kept her anchored to reality—entertaining any other possibilities might push her toward madness.