"Behind you!" Litty called out, alerting David to a second attacker.
The warning came just as David felt a familiar internal shift—the prelude to a dimensional fracture. For a terrible moment, his vision split, reality fragmenting into overlapping versions of the same scene. The approaching bandit seemed to occupy three spaces simultaneously, each slightly out of sync with the others.
David gritted his teeth, forcing his focus back to a single point of reality through sheer will. The effort cost him precious reaction time, but Luna was already there, intercepting the attack with economical grace. Her counterattack was brutally efficient yet carefully measured to appear within human capability.
