His shadow drones were occupied, and the one coming was a bit far away, so Damon was trapped in a doll's body while also not being able to remove his soul without getting completely obliterated by the barrier.
In fact, right now his soul had taken some serious damage, and he was at the edge of death. He could even feel a small, subtle touch of death upon him.
This wasn't just a feeling. It was something that came with being at the peak of the world. Those in the Seventh Class would, to some extent, feel the embers of the world, the metaphysical things that were hard to reach, things like Fate, Time, Dreams, and even vague things like hope.
While they didn't have control over all these things, they could subtly reach out to them. One of the most amazing displays of such power Damon had seen was when a fragment of Valerie Sunwarden had slowed down time.
He could do something like that, but it was because he dominated time, not because he had a conceptual understanding of it.
