THE REJECTED BETA
My aura was a localised EMP, the locks short-circuited and the gates groaned as I walked through them like a ghost through a graveyard.
Noah’s house was a monstrosity of steel and transparency, a monument to a man who had everything and understood nothing. I didn't knock. I didn't have to. I let my temper flare, a pulse of pure, unadulterated pressure that didn't just open the massive glass pivot-door, it shattered it.
The sound was glorious, the crystalline chime of a thousand shards raining down onto the designer marble.
Inside, the climate-controlled air was instantly sucked out, replaced by the biting, metallic scent of a mountain storm I had brought with me. I stepped over the debris, m