Broker - Chapter 36

... ng it difficult to hold onto it properly. He took a step into the puddle, the faint squelch-splash of his footsteps echoing lightly in the empty room. He looked down at the body and tilted his head, it had taken a while to peel all the stone off the man’s skin. It was informative, though, in more ways than one. First of all he’d learned that people with abilities like this actually wore their power like an armor that affixed itself to the skin. Blunt force trauma while they were restrained would ...