995 You're Going To Die

An hour earlier, just as Jake was being atomized to oblivion by the ferocious plasma storm...

Jake and Saros were cornered in a room that had become a furnace of blistering heat, chaotic winds, and world-ending radiation. The brightness had escalated to such magnitude that even if Jake still possessed his eyes, he wouldn't have been able to see beyond his nose.

As a twisted stroke of irony, he still had them. Amid the indiscriminate, all-consuming destruction of the plasma onslaught, three organs of Jake had survived the catastrophic annihilation that his body could not. They weren't his bones, resembling long black diamonds threaded with veins of silver-blue light, nor his Voidsteel chitin scales. Instead, it was three unexpected organs: his two eyes and his pineal gland.