The Void Gate notification burned in my peripheral vision like a neon sign advertising my own funeral.
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I'd encountered Void Gates exactly once in my reading: a throwaway chapter in "Hunter Academy: America's Elite" where the author had used one as backstory for a tertiary character whose name I couldn't even remember. The passage described what happened when dimensional sensor readings failed catastrophically and spatial boundaries inverted. Teams entered gates expecting routine mob clearing. Standard protocol. Standard risk assessment.
Those teams became cautionary tales filed in locked archives.
