Lie

Kieran sat on his favourite chair in his palace with his eyes closed.

A blue light of fire enveloped him like a shield, and his eyes were closed.

Veins popped out on his face and his hands that were tightly clenching onto the chair arms.

He seemed to be unconscious, but he was showing an expression of being in pain.

After a long time, he gasped and snapped his eyes open, and the firelight vanished immediately. 

He panted, his eyes a blue fire for a while before slowly dimming down to midnight blue. He closed his eyes once more with a shallow pant and placed his head on the headrest.

After some minutes, he sat up in the chair and opened his eyes, and then he tried summoning his nightwalker's powers.

His eyes flickered between red and blue continuously until blood seeped from his nose and he grunted in pain and shut his eyes, his clenched fist giving way, and he fell weakly from his chair onto the floor.