The pain was there.  Caroline hadn’t truly felt pain from another person in a long time.  Metal bands along her backside felt as if they would bend to a breaking point.  Energy from the impact of his meaty fists into her body vibrated through her as if threatening to tear her asunder.  Teeth gritted together while her eyes screwed shut from the pain.  Part of her wanted to cry out for the pain but her mind knew better than to give him that much.  Instead she kept her grip fast on him.  Then he lifted from her to turn his attention elsewhere.  Caroline stumbled a bit from the crater she occupied now.  Her legs had not buckled beneath the pressure of his strike but instead remained firm so that everything dissipated outward to tear apart the street.<br/><br/>When the dust settled and her companion landed nearby, she lifted her legs from the rubble.  Muscles flexed beneath the sunlight, highlighted even more for their reflective nature.  Power rippled down her body as she pushed out from the hole and came to stand beside her companion.  A roll of her shoulders sent a shudder down her spine along with a crackle of bone.  Along her shoulder the flimsy material of her shirt popped so that one half hung down.  Somehow she would have to get something more resistant to the damage than just plain cotton.  Arms tightened and flexed inward as she relished in the pain, let it fuel her temper further.  Cold eyes flashed forward to the Abomination before her and her teeth pressed together in the first sign of anger any might have seen her make.<br/><br/>Things certainly felt different when the damage was real.<br/>