The Void changed before the System could finish.
Phei felt Darkness in the reality throughout the lounge and the entire villa deepen, although none of the shadows actually stretched farther across the surfaces casting them. Instead, the shadow beneath the couch, the narrow darkness below the table, the black strip gathered behind the curtains and even the faint shadow beneath Phei's own feet suddenly possessed depths that no simple absence of light should have contained.
True Void Senseplunged into them immediately.
Phei's breath caught.
Every shadow remained physically separate, yet viewed from within the Void, each possessed another side. They were not literally connected, nor had distance disappeared between them, but the Void regarded that distance very differently from ordinary reality.
What Phei's eyes called darkness, True Void Sense now recognized as potential entrances, exits and pathways he could bend and use to his whim.
