The drive back to Windhoek felt less like a road trip and more like driving through a GPU stress test that was failing badly.
Rin sat in the passenger seat, watching the world outside the dirty windshield stutter. A herd of gemsbok stood by the side of the road, but every few seconds they would flicker, shifting a few feet to the left then snapping back, like reality was having trouble tracking their position.
"The lag is real," Tayo muttered from the back seat, clutching his broken arm. "I feel sick just looking at it."
"It's mana displacement," Nyx said, she was cleaning her nails with a combat knife she'd found in the glovebox, looking entirely too calm. "Thorne tried to merge two dimensions, he failed, now the seams are showing."
"Can it be fixed?" Joy asked.
"Sure," Nyx shrugged. "If you have admin access, which we don't."
