The quantum displacement left Avner suspended in a void that existed between heartbeats, between thoughts, between the spaces where reality remembered how to exist. When consciousness reasserted itself, he found himself alone for the first time since the Tenebras storms had begun.
He materialized in what had once been a grain silo, but the structure had been transformed into something that defied architectural logic. The cylindrical walls curved inward and outward simultaneously, creating impossible geometries that made his enhanced vision struggle to find focus. The air tasted of hot metal and ozone, thick with the electromagnetic residue of recent quantum manipulation.
