HUMMMMMM.
The low, resonant frequency of the hard-light bridge vibrated straight up through his legs and settled painfully right in the base of his jaw. It was the kind of noise that made your teeth itch.
"I am going to leave the nastiest zero-star review on Yelp when this is over," Sebastian grunted, his breathing heavy but controlled.
He held Valerie tightly against his chest, his left arm hooked securely under where her knees used to be before the gray static had eaten them away. His right arm was wrapped protectively around her back. She weighed absolutely nothing in the digital sense, feeling like a fragile, glowing balloon of blue light. But the emotional weight of carrying her flickering, dying soul across a ten-mile abyss was heavier than any dreadnought he had ever suplexed.
