....Yeah. [It had felt less like cutting and more like it had dissipated some of the energy in the path of the blade, almost. Just enough for the blast to not kill him.

...He still wasn't sure. His voice is quiet, pensive when he tries to describe it.]

I don't think I cut it... not in the physical sense. It just... pulled energy away from it, somehow....? It's hard to describe.

[He'd only had a few seconds to try to focus on what he felt before passing out. The second he'd done it his head felt like it was going to explode.] But it exploded around me, not on me.