The change was immediate. One instant the distant clash was still tearing the world apart with pressure strong enough to shake the battlefield under everyone's feet. The next, it was gone. No more shockwaves rolling across the land. No more white flashes or black arcs carving through distant ridges. That force which had been pressing over the war like a second sky simply vanished, and the silence left behind felt wrong in a way that made the skin crawl.
Noir felt it first. Her giant wolf form stayed still for half a breath, purple eyes fixed on the place where Noel and Roberto had been. Selene noticed at once. So did Charlotte, Elena, and Elyra from their own sections as the absence spread through the field more clearly than sound ever could.
Selene reached Noir first. "Where is he?"
