Satou entered the overlay.
The sensation was the specific cognitive challenge of a body receiving conflicting temporal signals from the space it was moving through — proprioceptive inconsistency, arm encountering one rate while foot encountered another.
[MENTAL FORTRESS — ABSOLUTE + MENTAL CAPACITY EXPANDED]
Processed the contradictory inputs and sorted them — the absolute mental fortress refusing to allow the disorientation to translate into functional impairment, the expanded mental capacity handling the additional processing load.
He kept moving. Slower. The overlay working as friction even through his resistance.
Chronus came at him from inside the overlay.
Calibrated to the stream that enhanced slow movement — his approach amplified by the specific temporal stream he was navigating through.
They met at the overlay's center.
Seven consecutive exchanges.
