The guild's first organized raid into the overlay went in at noon.
Twelve teams, staggered entry, the operational structure of an institution that had been running dungeon clearances for twenty years, trying to apply that experience to something that wasn't a dungeon. It mostly worked. The parts that didn't work were instructive.
Yuna's team was the third entry. Cael stood at the threshold of the overlay and felt the difference between this and a standard Fracture entry, the way you felt the difference between a room and an open field. No seam, no threshold pressure, no moment of transition. The overlay just began. Real world on one side and both worlds on the other, the boundary marked by a painted guideline on the pavement and the subtle wrongness of the air on the far side of it.
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