Breaks out of Snag's power

I felt the machinery hum with activity, and tore the hand away, pushing it away from my throat and face. The emotion effect grazed me, minor, but I hadn't recovered from the last hit.

A small kind of loss, this. The hit didn't do what the first had, rounding out a memory. It did buzz through other memories. Ones that were more minor, that I'd never put to rest.

*****

"Stop," I said. I didn't sound like myself.

His hands freed, he reached back to his boot with one gauntlet.

***

The shurikens detonated behind me, and on the bed in front of me. Something that wasn't fire or anything of the sort. Something jumped between them, like electricity but not. Where it touched me, my heart jumped, my mind stumbled, and feelings welled.

All of the doubts, fears, and hesitations inside me magnified, multiplied. It paralyzed me for the moment.

This, at least, was something I'd been trying to get a handle on. Here, my resistance applied.

- Daybreak 1.6