Lin Yi increased his pace. He moved with a deliberate intent, careful not to let his speed turn into a lack of control. It was a distinction he had learned long ago on Tianyuan Star, where he realized that the gap between urgency and haste was often where mistakes happened. Urgency served the Law and kept a man moving toward a goal, while haste was a betrayal of that same Law, born of a carelessness that usually ended in failure.
He began to use the Observer differently than he had in the days following his arrival. Previously, he had functioned as a passenger to the sub-class, letting its density readings guide him through the landscape as if he were drifting on a current. He had followed the general pull of richer content without forcing a direction. Now, he turned the tool toward a specific, active question. He needed to know where the force that had emptied the tree and disturbed the ground had gone.
