Bovac moved again.
Small step. Sideways.
The field was at eight feet.
Each step maintaining the field rebuild while trying to avoid the rift entry.
Zarek tracked each step — the rift entry following Bovac's slow repositioning, the entry appearing in front of whichever direction Bovac moved to.
Bovac stopped.
The null field at eight feet and rebuilding.
He looked at the rift entry in front of him.
At the cage's geometry — exits arranged around the point he had arrived at, the cage's configuration such that movement in any direction led toward a cage rift.
At Zarek outside the eight-foot field.
He made a decision.
He ran.
Full speed — abandoning the null field's maintenance, the fast movement collapsing the grey distortion from eight feet back to the minimal personal radius immediately, the field shrinking to three feet as he ran toward the nearest cage exit's position.
