His tentacles danced wildly in the air, some entangling my body and others snaking into my collar. I could faintly feel them crawling under my skin to consume my energy. Right, he could only consume energy through a medium, and couldn’t retrieve energy he’d already released, so he had to consume energy from me. He had to get into direct contact with my body.

As my body constantly absorbed the surrounding scattered energy, he constantly consumed the energy he required from my body. The result was a sort of strange energy loop. I absorbed energy from him, while he took it back from...