Grey probably should have been pissed, but instead, he found the entire situation fucking hilarious.
His mind had been focused almost entirely on Center of Spirit for the last several minutes, pushing the Ability until his thoughts seemed to operate at impossible speeds, and yet Erik had somehow appeared without Grey sensing the bastard at all.
That almost certainly meant he was relying on some treasure Grey hadn't seen or understood before, and there was exactly one corporation with both the motivation and resources to hand something like that to him.
Once Grey focused on it, the rest of the plan was almost insultingly easy to unravel.
Muse Incorporated clearly hadn't trusted the Goddess to kill him on her own, so they had boosted Erik's icy abilities with something specifically designed to interfere with Grey, allowing the cold to cling to his Resonant Sense and crawl through that connection toward his Neural Frame.
