Phei had grown accustomed to True Void Steps obeying him with a dangerous sort of perfection.
Distance had become negotiable ever since the ability evolved. Walls, formations, intervening terrain and the ordinary arrogance of space itself no longer possessed the same authority over his movement. Phei could slip into the hollows hidden between positions, surrender his place in the world for the briefest instant and return somewhere else before conventional motion had even begun to matter.
True Void Steps had never asked whether a destination welcomed him.
Distance had become negotiable ever since the ability evolved. Walls, formations, intervening terrain and the ordinary arrogance of space itself no longer possessed the same authority over his movement. He could slip through the hollows hidden between positions, surrender his place in the world for the briefest instant and return somewhere else before conventional motion had even begun to matter.
