Too close. Several yards away was too damn close. This power of his took away everything. Took away his career, his body, it took away Gale and it had ripped every last shred of dignity away from him when he'd flattened the dormitory in Massachusetts.

It wasn't going to take Didi, too.

But a few more steps away from her was as far as he could manage, and then his legs buckled out underneath him, and he was hitting the forest floor knees-first.

He couldn't breathe.