And then the fear and panic bled away into pure confusion. He was awakening and nobody seemed to be around to help him. Sure, Eli knew that non-awakened fire Aspects were usually kept out of the loop, but never this much. There had to be at least one Aspect around to keep an eye on him.

"Tara? No, it's just me this time around, no little sister tagging along to blast things if the going gets tough." He shouldn't be telling him this, but it's a Shannon and Eli always had trouble saying no to him. "Wait, are you saying you've never met any of the others?"