As she stepped away to make the call, Howard returned his attention to the projection, adjusting the Fresnel lens to bring Devil's Tooth into sharper focus. "There's something else," he said, his voice lowering. "Sometimes, during certain tidal conditions, I've observed... movement around the disruption. Not natural marine movement."
"What kind of movement?" Bruce asked, his enhanced senses automatically sharpening at the potential threat.
"Figures," Howard said simply. "Humanoid but not quite human. They emerge briefly from the disruption, then disappear again, as if testing the boundary between their reality and ours."
The Custodian's patterns flared with alarm. "Deliberate incursions. This confirms it—the membrane isn't just failing through natural deterioration. Something is actively attempting to breach it."