Miles away in the Eclipse guild hall, Vespera Ashborn was mid-stride through the administrative wing when it happened. The communication artifacts across the building had gone dark, every rune draining at once. She couldn't pinpoint him through the interference, but she didn't need to. She knew the general direction.
The darkness in the hallway responded before she consciously called it, peeling from walls and corners and the spaces beneath furniture, pooling at her feet and climbing her legs until it had wrapped her in a cocoon that swallowed light and sound. The startled faces of Eclipse staff watched their guildmaster vanish into darkness.
The shadow stretched into a road that tore through distance itself, and Vespera stepped into it. The world blurred past in a rush of velocity that would have killed anyone below 250 Vitality.
She crossed miles in a breath.
