The second burst.
Eight seconds at full overclock—the blur returning, the speed and force climbing back to the level the first burst had operated at. Vornik moved immediately, the recovery window's restoration giving him back everything the first recovery had taken.
He drove at Varen from a new angle—not the direct frontal approach of the first burst, a wide arc that approached from the right side, trying to present Varen with an approach direction that his lateral step had been less prepared for.
Varen read the arc.
He moved—two lateral steps right, putting himself ahead of the arc's arrival point rather than behind it.
Vornik adjusted.
The overclock processing tracking Varen's movement and redirecting—the blur changing course, the speed letting the adjustment happen faster than Varen's steps could account for.
