Jules tentatively reached forward, stretching out a hand.

Nothing happened.

Strange.

Extremely, ridiculously strange.

Jules furrowed his brow. The crisis alert had vanished, and indeed there was no immediate danger ahead—but had anything really changed?

He couldn't make sense of it.

Had the crisis alert truly malfunctioned? He had seen clearly—nothing at all had happened.

So how could it be that one second he was on the brink of death, and the next he was safe?

Had becoming a spring-man