Portals can be sensed

I returned to myself in an instant but didn’t react otherwise, didn’t look up. Instead, without even moving, my senses expanded outwards. I drew up all my Elementals, let light and color swim freely across my vision beneath the full, disorienting might on my Clairvoyance, and drew the entirety of my combat power around me. Invisible currents of air, flows of heat, water vapor, and electromagnetism stood out bright and clear in my mind’s eyes, even as time slowed to a crawl around me.

There were things that could hide themselves well—that could become invisible and mask their scent and more. Done right and too the right person, all of a human’s senses could be fooled.

But I had a few more than that.

I didn’t even twitch as that happened—I stayed as I was, leaning slightly forward, resting an arm on a leg as I looked at Adam as he told his story about some mission or other. It was a short thing that he didn’t go to detail on, so he swiftly reached the end of the tale, but each sentence seemed to drag out endlessly. Even so, I waited until he was done.

Then, I spoke, moving nothing but my mouth.

“There’s no need for you to stand there, friend. Come sit with us.” I spoke to the woman behind me, who hadn’t been there until after the words were finished. There was a shift in the air behind me, a sudden access to air that hadn’t been there before, and what seemed like everyone in the room suddenly turned to look behind me.