Plans usually require time and thought. The kind of time where you can sit somewhere quiet, run the numbers in your head, then run them again because the first time you were probably lying to yourself. The kind of thought where you test your tools against something safe first, where the worst outcome is embarrassment instead of a funeral you don't get to attend.
In any other scenario, Kael would have at least studied the surroundings more or tried to come up with some measures. Maybe a day or two of planning and testing his own tools some more to understand their limit. He would have mapped out sightlines, picked escape routes, marked choke points, calculated how long [Presence] could hold without turning him into a wheezing idiot on the pavement.
That would be the usual, the way any sane man would act when it came to a situation where death is the result of failure.
But not in this case.
Unlike plans that require you to change the plan to fit the circumstances.
