First, I focused on my minor Law of Resonance. It was still at level three.
I drew in a deep breath and began channeling Essence through my channels. Then, I dumped four hundred points straight into my Psynapse.
The rush hit instantly. A tremor ran through my mind, like a thunderclap inside my skull. For a moment, everything spun, the sea, the air, even my thoughts. But I held firm, grounding myself as the surge of perception sharpened every sound, every pulse of the world around me.
Slowly, I closed my eyes and let the outside world seep into my awareness. The soft crash of waves against the island's edge became my rhythm.
The ocean rose and fell like a living heart, and I tried to sync my breathing to it, inhale when the tide reached its crest, exhale when it pulled back into the deep.
