<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">Lucian shook his head as he tried to clear it, before looking over at Alexi and smiling a bit.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff">“There was a lot of power flowing between the two of you. Way more power than expected, so much so that it overloaded the circle. I managed to hold it together long enough for you guys to finish the ritual, though i think that the final moments of it caused the surge of power that broke through.” </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">He motioned to a portion of the runes right in front of him that was distorted and partially erased.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff"> “It knocked me on my back, and my head is a little fuzzy, but besides that I’m fine.”</span>