[quote=Mistress Dizzy]
Devika shrugged. "Okay." She moved forward rapidly, and punched Kyra in the upper arm. She made sure to touch her bare skin, and with that little touch, what she'd been building was unleashed.Fear. Gut-wrenching, panic inducing, phobia level fear. This one had taken some time for Devika to build up. It wasn't that she wasn't afraid of anything. It was more that she couldn't nail down one specific thing that could cause her that level of blind terror. She'd finally made a decision on something less external and more situational, and that had worked fine.Her own fear was loneliness. Not just spending a night alone, but spending a life alone. Going day to day with no one in the world caring whether you existed or not. She didn't know what Kyra's fear was- but it would probably be very present once her emotional bomb took hold.Devika let out a breath of relief as the fear left her and transfered to Kyra. Her knees felt less weak, her stomach unclenched. She could feel the clamminess fading from her hands, and her pulse started to drop to a much more normal rate. She watched Kyra carefully to see how hard she was going to be hit. For all she knew, this could be Mimic all over again- or worse.
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Kyra's breath caught in her throat. She started to shake and she fell back, scrambling backwards until she hit the wall. She folded her legs, grasping at her ears, mumbling incoherently. Her mind filled with it, the fear, and it had hit that one nerve she'd been trying to forget. She could feel it rising, making her go crazy once more. [i] No, control it....You promised yourself you wouldn't go back... [/i] she thought frantically. Her whole body shook now and she closed her eyes tightly.