The cooldown had ended. The storm began again.
On the bridge of the Oblivion’s Wake , First Officer Darrow watched the timer on his neural display bleed downward. navarch ability cooldown 30 seconds
Thirty seconds.
It is ten heartbeats too long. It is the time it takes for a missile to cross three astronomical units. It is the span in which a lucky shot can find a reactor core, in which courage curdles into panic, in which a battle turns not because of strategy, but because a god on your side is momentarily mortal. The cooldown had ended
In combat, thirty seconds is an eternity. in which courage curdles into panic