Vorin stood with an empty copy slot and four feet of distance between him and the fight's resolution.
The Vacuum Spear had cost Ordin—the recovery debt from the extended compression visible in how he was holding his arms, the elastic tissue having stretched to a degree that required real time to reset. He couldn't fire another Vacuum Spear immediately. Arrow Bursts were still available—the shorter compression requiring less recovery—but the largest tool in his arsenal had a window of unavailability following its use.
Vorin read the recovery.
He advanced—the window the Vacuum Spear's recovery created was the same kind of window that Vornik's overclock recovery had created for Varen, a fighter's ability temporarily unavailable, the body paying back what the technique had borrowed. The difference was that Ordin's window was shorter than Vornik's had been.
Vorin had seconds, not the minutes Varen had used.
He covered the four feet fast.
