A/N:Guys... give this training and hell patience... it's taking us somewhere important. I know I am giving you a spoiler right now, but I don't mind, I hope you don't too, otherwise, soon some question of Phei's past are about to be answered: more or less.
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Phei in the end did not have time to think.
He ran.
The first step put weight on the javelin-impaled calf and his vision whited for a split second from the pain, but his agility carried the foot through the strike before his nervous system could veto the motion.
The second step closed twelve yards. The third step put him at the edge of the falling rain's perimeter — the shards beginning to land behind him in a long screaming hail, the cathedral hollow's stone floor receiving the rain in two hundred discrete cracks that overlapped into a sustained roar — and the fourth step put him under one of the still-standing primordial trees.
