The bundle of tightly focused energies doesn't fall through the strange and twisting places between pages of a book or ticks of a clock, any more than the concept of 'three' falls when someone projects a three-dimensional square to a two-dimensional shadow. But it does progress.

It is a gift; gifts must be given.

This one has been given to ... that person, just there.

It wraps around them gently, giving itself to them. But not quite gently enough, because there is enough lets-call-it-momentum to pop them free and carry them —