The air suddenly changed!
Liora felt it, she had tried her best to keep shut, felt the reverberations of Shadow's battle with the demon, she had seen him get beaten beyond compare, brutalized, broken and tossed about like a rag doll.
She knew he had given up his life to save hers, she felt it in the command he had given her, yet she could do nothing against the barrier the demon had set up, nothing but watch her brother get beaten to death.
But now, now she wasn't sure what was going on.
She was sure that Shadow's legs and arms had been broken by the demon, yet there he floated in the air, shrouded in complete darkness, so whole and complete it sent shivers down her spine.
This was a power she had never felt before, nor was it one in which she could understand its depths. Encompassing, whole, complete. Yet so foreign atrocious. This was deeper than the power the demon held, much more fearsome than it, than anything any human had a right to own...