I felt her through time and space, a heartbeat that matched my own. She walked around me, her footsteps more vibration than heard, as if she perched behind a thin veil. She sidestepped and thrust forward. My blade drove upward, stopping hers, and my free hand whipped out, grasping her wrist, holding her in this space. Her eyes went wide. “How?” “Always with the tone of surprise. There is no place in this world or the next that you can hide from me, akrai.”
