An explosion threw Zoe to the ground. She was blinded and deafened, and her entire body echoed with the sizzling white flash.

Her ears buzzed as she drew herself to her feet. Even though her hair was soaked, it crackled with static.

Zoe

Hello....

She heard her own voice faintly—she wasn't deaf.

She opened and closed her eyes. At first all she could see was the cloudy afterimage of a streak of white lightning.

It had happened so suddenly, she had to remind herself to breath as she gulped in her surroundings—

The screaming wind....
The bellicose sky....
Her bike....