Starfire at the very edge of the realm fluttered and then set into a rigid lattice as the first probe came through.
Aeloria was already in motion before the last of the residual shockwaves rolled out over the inner isles. Nyx came up on the threshold a breath later, tendrils of living dark curling outward in a broad, warding veil. The two of them took their places side by side without argument, gazing out over the place where something had tested the outer seals.
Lucifer was aware of the impact through the Divine Blood Core a fraction of a second after they were.
Clean, deliberate, and far heavier than any of the stray pressures he'd been feeling in the years prior. He left the training platform immediately and swept across the distance at an accelerated pace, coming to a stop several feet back from where the two women stood.
"What was that?"
Aeloria did not turn to face him. "An external probe. Of high order. It was running a progression scan against the defensive layers."
