Taking in a good amount of air into her lungs, Samantha tried to rise back up on her own two feet.
The echoes of destruction seemed distant, and that gave her some time to recover a little bit of her strength before applying pressure to her weak limbs, forcing herself into a sitting position. When she was pushed out of the way, she was unable to regain her stamina and fell to the ground, but now that her senses were slowly returning, she was able to grasp that the one she tried to kill had saved her from what was coming.
Her eyes flickered for a moment, a glimmer of recognition breaking through at the sound of Ivan's voice, but before she could gain some of her sanity, a searing pain penetrated into her skull, and she was back to clutching her head again, unable to get used to the torturous pain that invaded her senses. Her heart drummed in her chest, her breathing labored, yet she could not fight it.
