The woman watched with careful eyes as Alex ate the pills and waited as they took effect. She wondered what exactly those effects were. If her Divine Senses were any stronger, she could've seen directly into his body, but constrained as she was, she could not sense any outer change at all.
Whatever had happened to Alex was on the inside.
Alex brought out a sword and held it aloft, ready to attack.
She waited for him to attack, but Alex had his eyes closed, as if focusing on something very important. She couldn't help but wonder what it was that he was thinking about. Or was it the effect of the pills he had eaten? Did they allow him to sense something?
'How long are his preparations going to last?' she wondered. 'I need to go back before anyone realizes that I'm—'
Her eyes widened in an instant as something changed. She felt the world around her crumble as everything she had control over was taken away from her palm in that very moment.
