Ray finally calmed down.

"Absorbing another powerful ability user's power gives you a massive power spike,' he grumbled, 'but the feedback is hell. I came about two seconds from blowing a fuse—like some lab rat who overdosed on experimental serum and cooked himself from the inside out.' The sensation of impending combustion had been terrifyingly real."

His heart rate had shot past two hundred. If he'd bothered to check his blood pressure, it would've broken two hundred as well—maybe even highe