"Let's go-" Her yell was entirely cut off. As soon as Lena jumped into the cloud, her world exploded into agony.
The moment her body made contact with the swirling mass of condensed magical energy, electricity surged through every nerve in her body. There was no build up, nor time for her to prepare. One instant she was jumping through open air, and the next, lightning was tearing through her from the inside out.
Her muscles locked up instantly. Every single one of them contracted at once, seizing so hard she thought her bones might snap from the pressure. Her jaw clamped shut with such force she bit through the inside of her cheek. Blood filled her mouth.
The pain was beyond anything she'd ever experienced.
It wasn't localized. It wasn't something she could compartmentalize or push to the back of her mind. This was total, complete, all consuming suffering that radiated from every cell in her body simultaneously.
