She spotted it: a broken antenna tilting toward a condenser pipe. The intersection point X wasn't ahead. It was behind her.
They met at X .
The game froze. A holographic X = 0 bloomed between them. Kael looked at his chest. The word "VOID" blinked where his health bar used to be.
She smiled, deactivated her lace, and vanished into the vertical maze—already solving for her next game.
"Three… two… one… Dash ."