"I have everything in the intelligence file," she said. "It's all accurate. Everything we observed, everything we gathered — it's there, it's real, it's correct." She paused. "I'm also reading something that isn't in the intelligence file and I don't have a category for it."
"What's the closest category," he said.
She was quiet for a moment.
"The accounts from the eastern territories," she said. "When the Church sent a senior team against the demon lord of the Carved Mountain Range twelve years ago. The team came back. Three of them." She paused. "Their report described something they called 'ambient displacement' — the feeling of a space in which the threat didn't localize. It was everywhere in the environment at once rather than in the threat's specific position." She looked at the figure. "I'm reading that."
"At a hundred and fifty yards," Caldris said.
"Yes," she said.
The figure kept walking.
