Alice glanced toward the horizon, her fingers brushing lightly against the earring.Suyin had warned her about the device's durability, and the thought of it breaking during transport wasn't something she intended to risk.Precautions were necessary.A barrier came first.
She adjusted the trigger cast, setting it to activate whenever anything approached the earring. To test it, she picked up a pebble and brought it close. The moment it neared her ear, a dome shimmered into place around the device, intercepting it.
The barrier wasn't static. It rotated, deflecting the pebble away before it could make contact.
Once the preparations were done, Alice gave her body a stretch.
"How will we be moving? Are you just making portals?" Elias asked curiously.
He knew that using the Void could allow one to cross large gaps in mere moments. However, those are usually limited to one-person-sized portals that quickly shut afterwards. Shuttling through portals rapidly was… risky, to say the least.
