The bored patrol guards had no chance of noticing two figures walking directly past them. Even if their spiritual sense was higher than typical for the region, they would find nothing visually amiss - because that sixth sense also refused to perceive anything out of place.
Qat found it all quite unsettling.
Strolling through a security checkpoint while her wife's illusions made them utterly imperceptible felt criminal… because it technically was! There had been a few times she knew of that they were made invisible to hide things here and there, but this was a different concept of use beyond just momentary 'privacy'.
The fact that she could reach out and tap someone on the shoulder without them sensing anything, because Elua would erase the 'touch'... felt almost terribly wrong. Like she had an undue amount of power over them. Something that her cute but troubled wife lived with constantly.
"I've never felt this close to being a ghost."
