Jason grins at her, shudders through his next breath and feels the potential of what he could do rolling through his veins. "You're already powerful," he says, twisting his head away to bark a scream at the closest patch of earth just to watch it erupt.

"People listen to you, that doesn't happen to everybody. Be careful, Effy." It's a rare sentiment from Jason, but he's never been this strong before, not even after he brought Crime Alley to its filthy knees. "We could break anything we wanted to today."