There was no sound, but Gilpatrick knew it was screams by the way her face contorted.

The images spread further. The energy traveling along the ground traced along the edges of those images, formed eyes and skeletal hands.

“And this is with the security, for lack of a better way of putting it, off,” Rain said.

A cliffside near them cracked, then broke.

The images winked out.

The broken section of cliff sloughed off, then toppled.

It crashed violently against the island on the other side of the chasm. Forming a crude bridge.

Still a bit of a jump to get down there, but… Gilpatrick nodded. He could see the way that had been formed.

“I could um,” Rain said. “I have no idea how it would work, but I could try sectioning off your daughter from the island. It might alter your power, but it would also mean it has less material to use for your dreams.”

Love Lost shook her head.

“Okay,” Rain said. “Colt?”

“We have other stuff to do.”

“Okay,” Rain said.

Gilpatrick followed Rain to the slope where the chunk had broken off. It was a bit like going down a slide to try and land on a three-foot wide plank. It was wider than three feet, but as far as Gilpatrick was concerned, the slopes on either side of those three horizontal feet were too steep, threatening to send anyone trying to stand on them down and over the edge.

Three feet was a lot, but not when approaching it at a slight angle and a high velocity.

Rain was first down the slope.

He skidded along three feet of the column, hit the slope, and used it like a skateboarder might ride in a ‘u’ pipe.

Gilpatrick waited until three more people had gone before he felt confident enough in his interpretation of that particular space before following.

By the time he caught up, Rain was already at another set of pillars.

The light flashed out, jumping out to the distance, and over the horizon.

“What did you do this time?” Gilpatrick asked.

“Broke up some of the Titans,” Rain said. “I think I got one.”

“We got one,” Colt said. “We could push for more.”

“Not without unwanted attention,” Rain said.

There were more of the ‘security’ on the horizon, shaken and immobilized, now starting to rouse.

“We wait until the next opportunity. Until then, we need to stay safe,” Rain said.

Test run using the familiar and stable, Gilpatrick put it together. And then a decisive blow.

“What’s next?” Gilpatrick asked.

“We might not get to decide,” Colt said.

Gilpatrick looked at her, concerned.

Then followed her gaze.

At the top of the ledge, Cox and Valentin stood on the clifftop near the other cluster of crystals. They hadn’t descended.

The pair stared down at them, looked over in the direction where the flash had gone, and then started running in the opposite direction.