He was sitting in the denser distribution of formations when the presence registered.
Not through Predatory Instinct, which had been operating in the Lower Domain sense and had not fully adapted to the Middle Domain's different quality of presence. Through the Observer, which was designed for this environment and was reading it continuously, the sub-class flagging the approaching presence as something that was neither a formation nor an ambient feature of the landscape but an entity, specifically a cultivator, moving through the Middle Domain toward his current location.
He did not stand.
He stayed where he was and let the Observer's reading develop as the presence came closer, the information filling in the way it always filled in as distance decreased, incomplete at range and more complete at proximity.
The cultivator's Law was readable to the Observer before the cultivator was visible.
