Chapter One: Borrowed Wind

The overloaded man raised his hand again. Lin leaped through the window on borrowed wind. He could not fly, but his body remembered how Yue Lan had stepped on the spine of a typhoon. He curved behind the man and blew a black sliver from his neck. The lightning died. The man fainted. Lin began to fall, and Yue Lan caught his collar ten meters down. Back on the bridge, she studied the black sliver. “You copied me?” “About eight minutes remain.” “Will they return?” Lin could feel that every second spent was gone forever. “No.” An investigator from Tianheng Academy tested him. The screen flickered before displaying: Unknown mimic class. Projected stability: Firefly One.