"When I wish to be," he answered. It didn't happen very often, but it was there.

As for the sparkles, they would have been more distracting if he had been using solely his eyes to track his foe. But he knew far too well that eyes could lie. Or be near-ineffective, as was the case in the darkness that had gripped the city. Instead, he simply swung his sword up to strike as NiGHTS drew into the strike range.