Jay grins, and all the repressed static behind his eyes finally starts popping out in bursts of cobalt...like an electrical circuit within him has just been completed.
He can do this. She believes in him, after all.
…and, he believes in himself, for once. There's nothing else he has to be in this moment than the Master of Lightning…
…and if that turns out to be just a boy named Jay Walker…
He lets go, unleashing everything he's ever held within in a single burst...
The lightning strikes, the storm begins—
And a giant clap of thunder rings across the sky.
Art for Chapter 34 of Born to Be!