The Corruptor had gone still.
It stood in the center of the room with its featureless face angled toward me, but it wasn't moving anymore. No more slow walking around the room. Just still, like something waiting to understand what had changed.
The barrier between us pulsed with a green glow.
It can't feel me through this. I thought. But it felt something. The noise from the door, maybe. Or the air that came in from outside.
Maybe Kira's anxiety bleeding through the walls? That one felt possible.
I didn't have time to theorize further.
I pulled the yo-yo from my pocket and let it drop, catching the string at its lowest point before it swung back. The familiar movement made me feel at ease.
The Corruptor's head froze still.
I focused on the hole I'd left in the door behind me and extended the barrier outward until it covered the opening by a landslide. No Corruptor would get through that hole.
Then I walked forward, letting the barrier move with me.
