Chapter Three: The Future Is Never Free

Boos followed them through the tunnel. Before staff collected the phones, Lin glimpsed two trending phrases: OBSIDIAN DESTROYS ITSELF and DAYBREAK DISAPPEARS AFTER FIRST BLOOD. Zhou twisted his water bottle. "One correct guess doesn't make a jungler." "Enough," Chen said. "He's right," Lin replied. "I'll keep up next game." Su placed the strategy board between them. "Tang's reversals hide rotations from mid and support. Next game, don't chase him. Chase the empty space he creates." She looked at Lin. "Can you do that?" What she meant was: Can you do it without forcing the future? He nodded. In game two, Lin took the map-control hero Elderwood Spirit. Obsidian stopped matching Tang's ganks and traded objectives using Lin's early calls.