Strikes arrived from positions Yan hadn't been in when the strikes began; the grey form's positional precision created combat space that conventional spatial understanding struggled to map in real time.
Jolthar's telekinesis worked constantly, not catching specific attacks but maintaining a dynamic field of force around him that degraded any strike's delivered force regardless of angle, accepting that he couldn't predict specific trajectories and compensating by making every trajectory cost more than it would against an undefended target.
He was taking hits. Not full ones - the telekinetic field and his own movement absorbed and deflected them - but partial impacts from Yan's committed strikes accumulated in ways that full misses didn't. His left side was complaining. His right shoulder had received something that would develop into significant bruising within the hour.
And Horgath was telling him that the chaobane disruption on Yan's left side was reaching the fault lines.
