Keane remained outside the vanished gate for several minutes, checking the surrounding area twice before doing it a third more intently.
There really was nothing left, no trace of the entrance, no strange energy and no sign of any of the creatures he had killed inside. More importantly, there was no sign of the figure either.
'Just what the fuck was that?' Keane thought to himself while standing where the gate had been.
He had cleared enough gates by now to at least understand the basic pattern they followed. Even the Flux Gate, with everything that had been wrong with it, still followed certain rules.
The figure however bothered Keane more than any of that.
'Why did it feel familiar?' He thought to himself, looking down at his hands.
The feeling hadn't completely disappeared even after leaving the gate.
Keane couldn't remember ever seeing the person before, and there hadn't even been enough detail in the silhouette for him to recognise a face, clothes or anything else useful.
