Not the above-water limbs — those were above the floor contact. But the vibrations in the flooded floor from Dravos's footsteps, from the phantom limbs' movements transferring force through the air that eventually touched the flooded surface, from every physical event in the arena that was connected to the water she was touching.
The flood was more sensitive than the dome had been.
The dome had shown her displacements — where the limbs were in space. The flood at direct palm-contact showed her force patterns — the way force moved through the entire arena, through the water on the floor, through the stone beneath it, through the air above it where the water droplets from the dome's recent collapse were still falling back to the surface.
She built a picture.
Not visual — tactile, the information arriving through her palms in contact with the flooded floor, the fight's entire force landscape readable through the water she was touching and producing.
Three phantom limbs above her.
