<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">Lucian was struggling. It wasn’t that he didn’t have the power, it’s that the ritual wasn’t made to <b>contain</b> this much power. This was way beyond what should have been trying to get free, and he could feel it building. Then finally, it happened. A small part of one of the lines broke, right in front of him, and he was blasted with the energy from the circle. The force of it shooting out into the room knocked him on his back.  Thankfully he had sensed them finish the spell right before it broke, so he was able to pull out his magic from the circle. His head was fuzzy from the blast, and as he sat up and looked at the two of them he couldn’t get it to clear.</span>