The angel reached Alex with both transfers incomplete.
Raven's F3 halfway through the process — the channel between F3 and Alex open but the transfer incomplete, Raven's double‑bladed scythe destabilizing in her hand as the Fragment began to yield.
Jessica's F6 barely started — Entropy at the threshold between Jessica's channel and Alex's, not yet fully crossed.
The angel placed its hand on Alex's chest and threw him backward.
Not with the full momentum of the fight's first strike — calibrated. The angel didn't want Alex unconscious yet. It wanted Alex interrupted.
Both transfers collapsed.
F3 returning to Raven. F6 returning to Jessica.
Alex on the forest floor with the interruption of two simultaneous transfers resonating in the channels of the five Fragments he already had — the specific pain of something that started and was stopped, different from combat pain.
[Alex HP: 381,200 → 298,400]
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