They didn't have a full day when the mobile node stopped functioning.
The border sky's trailing wreckage had not yet cleared in its drifting pattern when the atmospheric pressure shifted; there was nothing of the quality of another hunter cell arriving, nothing of the supply vein offering itself anew. Air grew substantially denser, as though a distant hand had gripped the local current of pursuit roads and determined the board to be cumbersome.
Aeloria felt it through the lattice link first. "Something is entering projection. Not complete descent. Limited body. High density."
Nyx's shadow stretched across the broken field extensively, "The being."
Lucifer turned toward the thickening patch in the shadows precisely as the new projection reached completion.
