Zarek grabbed him.
Both arms — the clinch, the physical hold inside the three-foot null field, both fighters at contact range with the field collapsed to its minimum and the cage's four rifts still active at the arena's geometry.
Bovac tried to push Zarek away.
Zarek opened a rift entry at the point where Bovac's pushing hands made contact with his chest.
The push passed through the entry.
Exit — at Bovac's own chest.
Bovac's push arrived at his own chest from the entry at Zarek's chest — the pushing force traveling through the rift and arriving at the exit at Bovac's body, Bovac's own push hitting Bovac.
The push hit Bovac's chest.
He stumbled backward — his own force pushing him, the exit at his chest receiving what the entry at Zarek's chest had absorbed.
He went back two steps.
Fast — the stumble produced by his own pushing force, the movement fast.
The null field collapsed again.
Three feet.
Zarek was outside it.
