Fully in the zone now, he slipped among the pulses like a fish navigating a reef.

I see this as animation, with golf-ball sized energy bolts coming down, and Gryphon dodging them in the classic "vanish in a blur of black lines, reappear elsewhere" style.

It hit with a flash of white light and a concussive blast,

And this comes with a ring of white light coming out perpendicular to the contact.

No idea what Gryphon had in mind, but that's what I get.

Peter Eng
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