What? With that much water, there should be plenty of Fourth Fonons to draw from. Were the basic laws of physics really that different here?

No time to wonder about that. It was lucky that Luke had spotted the man, because Jade hadn't; the steam was obscuring his vision and without a visible target, his artes were liable to miss.

"Piers, up on the wall!" he called in warning. There was nothing else he could do but prepare another arte now -- ready to be cast once the enemy showed himself. Trying not to hit his comrades as well was going to be a problem.