Learning to Walk at Night

He had to brace himself on the wall and wait for the pressure to subside. When it finally did, he knew something simple and dangerous: this power was not free. The more information he pulled in, the closer he got to losing his grip on the real world. Noah saw the blood and went pale. "You need a hospital." "No money." "That doesn't make dying cheaper." Ethan almost said he would be fine, but the words felt flimsy. He settled for, "Find me an old radio." "For what?" "I'm going to see how this thing works." Noah thought his brother had lost it. Ethan wasn't sure he hadn't. All he knew was that if he wanted the stain off his name, he couldn't keep lying on the floor like something dragged ashore. He had to learn how to walk in the dark.