Fen was already awake when the ambient mana field fundamentally shifted.
Vane felt the heavy pressure change in his chest long before the dawn live-conditions update even pinged his wristband. The eastern field had violently mutated overnight. It possessed a slow, deliberate directional pull that had absolutely not existed on the first two days of their deployment. Vane threw off his heavy blanket and found Fen sitting right at the edge of the stone platform. Her notebook was open on her knees, and she was rapidly running field readings in the cold, bruising grey of the pre-dawn light.
She had been awake for two hours.
