What It Does
A lane of moving air, drawn in a line and held — the air carries the arrow true, the feather far, the spark across the gap. It is the ranged band's answer: the distance where the other man is a rumor, and the rumor is the one who is about to find out.
The Cost
Circle 1 · Air · Exchange: gesture — casting time one beat. On the ladder in The Veil, the gesture rung is the price, and the meter pays the budget while the exchange pays the spell.
The Failure
The lane holds the line a beat too long, and the air keeps the tension — the lane is the one who carries, and the one it carries is the arrow that was not meant to fly.
In Stories
The camp's first air spell; the one the Vantari cast when the ground is not theirs and the air is.
The door's scale anchor is Galeforce — the dragon casts it without thinking, which is how a reader learns the shape of the thing.