CHAPTER 602 — "TIME RESUMES"
Loki's foot landed.
One foot, mid-step, completing the step it had begun before the world stopped. His arm completed its reach toward his weapon. His body finished the forward motion of someone walking into a clearing to fight a Tenth Seat demon lord.
He stopped.
The four warriors at the gateway entrance, who had been frozen in the physiological stillness of beings overwhelmed by the working's ambient field, resumed time and found the clearing had changed significantly while they were standing still. They did the soldier's thing — orient first, understand second.
Seraphina's damaged wing joint completed its adjustment. Her body finished the recovery movement it had started before the halt caught it.
Twelve warriors mid-launch toward the clearing's center completed their launches and arrived at positions that were no longer tactically relevant.
All of it happened in the same instant.
All of it stopped in the same instant.
