They knew the difference the second the pressure changed.
It wasn't another agent, and it wasn't a recovery line trying to reform in the smog. The weight that settled over the ruined lane wasn't searching the same way they'd sensed it before, when they were inventory and not coverage. He didn't come looking. He came to stand.
Zeus stopped first.
Wukong lowered his staff and exhaled through his teeth. 'Please tell me that isn't what that feels like.'
'It is,' Athena said quietly. She had already raised her spear but even she could hear the unlikelihood of the gesture as she met the presence entering range. 'That isn't a messenger.'
