It stood isolated on a rocky outpost, its guards fewer and less armored, their postures lax in the dim glow of distant stars.
Bending space, he appeared before a soldier on watch duty.
The transition was seamless, a ripple in reality that left the air around him shimmering briefly, like heat waves on a desert plain.
The soldier had several arms and two legs, his chitinous exoskeleton glistening under the sentinel's harsh floodlights.
He also had several eyes all over his body, each one blinking independently, reflecting Aaron's form in multifaceted glints.
"Hello. I'm Aaron Highborn," Aaron introduced himself, his tone casual yet laced with an undercurrent of amusement.
He stood tall, his cloak billowing slightly in the artificial breeze from nearby vents.
He isolated space around the entire sentinel, creating a bubble of distorted reality where the stars outside warped like melting glass.
