[Celestial Academy — Administrative Wing Corridor — 11:08 AM]
The creature changed tactics.
It no longer charged in a straight line.
Its spiritual limbs deployed forward like scouts — touching the plane between life and death before the physical body moved, searching for where the two Fragments were before committing its mass.
It was learning fast.
Too fast.
"It's reading the Fragments before attacking," said Alex.
"I know." Seraph with F2's scythe active, her eyes tracking the spiritual limbs that were visible to her the same way they were to Alex.
"When it detects F1 or F2, it adjusts its trajectory before launching."
"Then we stop being predictable."
"Do you have a specific suggestion, or just the general observation?"
"Working on it."
The creature lunged.
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The spiritual limbs arrived first — two of them, from forty‑five‑degree angles, trying to fix Alex's and Seraph's positions on the spiritual plane before the physical body arrived.
Alex activated [Soul Sight].
