The sudden absence of that constant awareness was jarring. He had become so dependent on it it felt weird having it off. Earlier when he closed his eyes to concentrate, he still had ESP on so he could tell when he was being attacked. But now, he was truly going on blind.
[Good. Now feel.]
Darkness surrounded him, but Cipher pushed past the instinctive panic. He focused on everything else. Maybe because he was completely exposed and defenseless, his senses became extremely sharp. First he acknowledged the natural flow of air. It was easy to distinguish this as it flowed constantly around him.
From that, he derived Marcus's location by feeling the subtle displacement of air as he moved. Next was predicting the teleportation location. First he felt the normal flow of ambient mana. He then narrowed in on the faint unnatural mana fluctuations - but there were two sources.
