The eastern perimeter road had the advantage of width and the disadvantage of being mostly straight, the geometry offering him no corners to use, no narrow sections to leverage the creature's size against. The Cartographer's Eye was mapping everything in real time and finding nothing immediately useful, the road a long corridor with buildings on one side and the overlay boundary shimmering on the other, the creature behind him and closing the gap with the patience of something that had decided it didn't need to hurry.
The ring pulsed. The creature pulsed back.
He looked at the overlay boundary to his left as he ran. The shimmer of it, the dimensional bleed visible at the edge where the real world and the inverted space met. The boundary that he'd held with Heat Veil and Darae's threads f
