Graydon ignored the question as he knelt in the place where Kira had disappeared, touching the ground where she'd last stood as he threw wide his senses. The ship faded around him as the universe flooded Graydon's mind.
A younger, less trained Tuann would have been overwhelmed at the amount of input. Their mind would have broken under the strain.
Graydon let the pain pass through him. Where are you, coli?
There. A trace.
Graydon opened his eyes. "I have her."
Wren knelt beside him. "Are you sure?"
Graydon struggled with the impatience that question caused. Of course, he was sure. He wasn't a man that made mistakes.
Graydon spared no attention for those around him, focusing on the increasingly tenuous connection. A single lapse in concentration and he'd lose her.
He closed his eyes again, concentrating on the ki he'd scattered into the air like a net the instant before the rift had snapped closed around Kira. His soul's breath condensed. He used it to rip open the remnants of the fissure in time and space the other man had caused.
Graydon strained, the tendons in his neck standing out as he forced it open a millimeter at a time.
"Holy shit," Raider exclaimed as the air screamed.
A breeze stirred, quickly becoming a gale as Graydon's ki manifested as black sparks in the cargo bay.
Finn lifted his head, hope replacing his devastation.
Talon quirked an eyebrow, looking impressed as Joule and Devon drew closer.
With one last cry, Graydon ripped the rift the rest of the way open. He staggered to his feet, fighting a spell of dizziness.
"I'm coming with you," Finn declared.
"Wait," Raider started. "Don't tell me. That crazy guy with the ability to rip holes in the fabric of reality took her."
"And Jin," Joule added quietly.
"Graydon, I'm her oshota. I need to go," Finn said, focusing on Graydon.
"You can't. It won't support both of us," Graydon informed him.
And if anyone was going, it was going to be him.
Graydon squared up with Finn, ready to flatten him if he tried to force the issue.
"You're not thinking of following her through that?" Raider waved a hand at the rift in disbelief. "Are you crazy?"
"Kira is on the other side," Graydon ground out.
Finn's stance eased at the human's interruption, the moment passing as the oshota ceded his duties to Graydon just this once.
"You're just as crazy as she is," Raider muttered.
"Would you rather I abandon her?" Graydon asked, sending him a hard look.
Raider sighed and shook his head. "Of course not. Curs don't abandon each other. No matter what fucked up rift they wind up on the other side of."
"Glad we have that settled," Graydon spat, turning his attention to the rift.
"Make sure you bring her back," Wren said.
