Forged Destiny [Book 5: Ch. 15]

As I lunged for him again, this time I saw the shimmer of light behind more clearly, and through it, into a scene which seemed to show my own back. He stepped in. It closed, but I dove to the left, narrowly dodging an attack that would have impacted on me and thrown me into the earlier summoned wall of fire.

Portals. He was using portals; the same kind that Miss Goodwitch had used to bring us to our First Quest, and yet smaller, quicker and on a more local scale. Not knowing much about how it worked, I could still imagine it took less power to move fifteen metres than it did fifteen miles, and to move only yourself. This Mage seemed to have mastered that, and rather than using spells to control my movement, he instead focused on controlling his own positioning. It was ingenious. I'd have appreciated it more if it wasn't being used against me, though.

It also answered another unasked question. "Where did you send Torchwick and Neo?"

"Oh, you figured it out?" Unlike the Greycloaks on the stairs, the Mage seemed content to boast. "Their work was done here and they were called away. We've not had the best luck infiltrating locations and they're particularly good at it."

—Forged Destiny [Book 5: Ch. 15]