Perceptions and DeceptionsChapter 68
Cassie trembled hard, muscles in her arms standing out like iron bands, the edge of her sword scraping against the avatar's with a piercing noise that rippled down her spine. She poured energy into herself and the sword until the latter crackled with bright blue sparks. She whipped her sword upward with another screech of steel on steel, and the avatar careened away. She panted from the effort. Her "body" was only a convenient form around her psyche, but it reacted like the real thing,...