The world changes about you and all you can feel is terror. Thermal shock from a sudden change of temperature adds to the disorientation caused by a change in the colour of the light around you. You feel dizzy, sick, and fall to your knees.
This is all wrong! You panic and try to shut out the world. You don't listen to the soothing words that Adam (Who's Adam? How do I know his name?) is trying to make you hear.
[It's not working!] The girl's voice crashes through your mind and knocks all conscious thought aside. [He's too frightened to relax and let it happen! We cant hold the pain back any more!]
PAIN. The word crashes into you and absorbs you until PAIN is all you know.
[Something's been preventing him from breaking out.] Someone, Kevin?, calls. [That's why we had to go looking for him in the first place. He couldn't teleport and release the strain as the rest of us did.]
Teleport. Something deep inside you seizes the word, sure that you know what it means. The pain is eliminating any hint of who you are now. All that's left is some instinct that makes your body run and hide like the animal you are.
You hear the others gasp as your vision fades in a swirl of electricity. All over your body, fine hairs stand on end quivering with static electricity. Once again you let the mental power engulf you and the world changes about you in a moment of supreme release.
Just as the transition a moment before had left you shocked and disoriented, so the return to the thicket of trees on the edge of the playing fields leaves you gasping. Even as your eyes readjusts to the sun's yellow light and the cool summer breeze, your mind reels from the weight that had been lifted from it.
Something has broken in your mind, some internal prison door has swung open to let in a light you never suspected existed. Dimly now you realise that this is what should have happened long ago. It was keeping your mind in prison that has kept your body in pain. Kevin and his friends, all they wanted was to free you and you paniced and ran from them. You feel shame burning your cheeks as you hear another person move to stand in front of you.
You look up, ready to apologise, but reel back in shock. This isn't Kevin or Adam or any of the others. They haven't had time to figure out where you went yet. This is someone who has been waiting for you, who was searching for you when Kevin took you to safety. This is one of the men in suits.
Suddenly Kevin does arrive in a shimmer of lights and for a moment you believe that you've been rescued and everything is going to be fine. Kevin's always been small though and he's no match for the five men in suits that rapidly surround him. You see him knocked to the ground but then your hazy focus is drawn back to the man who towers above you.
His hand reaches down towards you and with your senses hyper-aware you watch in slow motion as it forms a fist. He's going to hit you and when he does all the glorious new lights will go out. You want to get away but you're dizzy, disoriented by the new senses that swamp the five you learnt to live with as an infant.
Do you:
a) Panic again and teleport
b) Try to run away
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