Standing at the exit of the game house, Rita suddenly felt a sharp wave of unease.
In her current state, she never ignored such feelings. Instead of slipping through the shadow world as usual, she moved to the window, peering out through the whale's eye to study the nearby cloud houses closest to the floating rocks.
Behind her, the waves coiled into the faint shape of a ship's helm. The spokes weren't even fully formed before she vanished.
She blinked across space, landing on one of the rocks she had tagged during her time-stop earlier. Just as she arrived, a cloud whale drifted past, its open mouth facing her position. The instant her feet hit the stone, Rita activated [Flash Step] and appeared inside the whale's cloud home.
A heartbeat later, shadows, bone blades, and scarlet slashes struck the exact spot where she had been standing.
