concept
The Blink
Also called blinking, or blinked
First appears in Chapter 1
You are ahead of your reading. This entry first appears in Chapter 1; nothing below is hidden from you, but it may say more than you have met.
Eri enters the thread dimension and transports to where a person once physically stood, found along their lifeline thread.
Location, not time. It has a cost.
This goes past where you have read. Reveal anyway.
Beyond
The cost is emotional hollowing. The still-point – going empty – is how she masters it, and it is what empties her.