The corridor opened into a circular room with a high ceiling and no windows.
Nyx stopped first, and Takeshi halted behind her.
At the center of the room stood a woman. Three fox tails were visible behind her, dark brown in colour, with ears of the same colour atop her hair. Her eyes were yellow, with no round pupils.
'A kitsune.'
She said nothing, but raised one hand.
What happened next was neither a projectile nor a recognisable element. It was a change in space. The air around Takeshi and Nyx closed inward as though the walls of the room had decided to shrink, but they were not the actual walls, only something superimposed over them. The available space went from a large room to a chamber approximately four metres by four in less than a second.
'Is this a domain?'
Immediately, the interior of the domain began to heat up. It was not a gradual increase. It was direct, concentrated heat coming from every direction at the same time.
