The roots pulsed beneath Ren's skin with a rhythm that didn't match his heartbeat. It felt like the life of something separate, an ancient being yet still strangely familiar. Ren felt as if he were synchronized with the very heartbeat of the earth itself.
He had lost total control of his energy fluctuations, and his emotions were so fierce that he had entered a strange emotional shock. He couldn't feel them the right way... They were just energy now.
Pure, raw, overwhelming energy that threatened to consume his very sense of self.
The seed in his chest had broken even further. The crack that had formed during his confrontation with corruption was no longer a single fracture line. It was now a perfect X, identical to the way the world itself might have been divided by ancestral forces.
"I understand now," he murmured, finally comprehending the true nature of what he carried within himself.
