Brand laughed.<br/><br/>"Slow on the uptake, are you?" he said. "Don't worry. You'lll be joining her in a few minutes."<br/><br/>His laughter faded as she seemed to expand to gargantuan size. His eyes narrowed as he found himself at the beginning of a real fight.<br/><br/>"As though you were going to do any different to her!" Brand taunted...though now his taunts were part of a a strategy rather than mere mockery.<span style="font-style: italic">Get her mad and she'll screw up. Then she'll be yours.</span><br/><br/>She'd made a huge mistake. No matter who had trained her or how much power she had, the skies belonged to Brand. The weather, the lightning, the wind were all his natural allies and he used them all on her now.<br/><br/>The air around her began spinning rapidly, going faster and faster and threatening to take her breath away. She had to breathe, and Brand was taking that away from her.