"You good?" Parker asked Cassidy, who was still vibrating with excess power like a kid who'd discovered coffee for the first time.
"I'm fucking incredible," she breathed, her eyes still flickering with microscopic flames. "Like, transcendentally amazing. Is this how immortals feel all the time?"
Parker's smile was enigmatic. "This is how I felt about three rebirths ago. But it's a start."
Back in the limo, Nyxavere was watching the whole scene through the tinted windows, her legs sprawled across the leather seats in that uniquely teenage way that somehow consumed three times the necessary space. She turned to Maya with a shit-eating grin spreading across her face.
"Okay but isn't it totally sus that Daddy can juice up everyone else's power ranking with, like, a handshake, but can't do the same trick on himself?" she asked, twirling a strand of hair around her finger. "Like, what kind of half-assed cosmic cheat code is that?"
