Sakki's mouth dropped a little.

[color=0072bc][b]"Her scent lingers."[/b][/color]

Bruce kept one foot propped against the back of the pew in front of him. Reasoning that if Shaidra had wanted to strike him from behind, she would have pressed forward rather than jump back before disappearing, he folded his arms over his raised leg, staring at nothing. He didn't exactly have a lot of room to wander in, and basically everything was visible to him already. 

[color=0072bc][i]'Tease,'[/i][/color] Sakki hissed resentfully, restless and disquieted with no payoff. [color=0072bc][i]'All of them, just a tease.'[/i][/color]

Bruce ignored the darker impulses of his mind, leaping over the pews in front of him to land at the foot of the steps to the podium. With nothing else to do, he ascended, wishing Wild Card were present to theorize about escaping from lesser dimensions.