Kendra stood the eleven hundred at the mouth of the one-way gate, the toll behind her still climbing against the harbor's account. She read the frame as she read a breach, counting the crowd against the throat that had to swallow all of them.
Every rank she held on the floor cost the workers who had sheltered her. The count on the account climbed by the minute, and the crowd at her back did not thin. One exit closed the toll, and it ran through a gate no power of Nox's could open.
The gate offered Nox nothing his fastest power could take hold of. Void Step needed a watched line or a claim he owned, and he had neither on this route.
[ Void Step II: requires an observed line or a valid Territory Claim. Target route: unobserved, unclaimed, no return signal. Path unavailable. ]
