Is that bad, or good? No choices also mean that there's no wrong choice, that they have to proceed as they can simply because they can't leave the path. That might not be bad, all things considered.

"I can move faster than you think." Faster than a human anyway, though nothing like a living lightning bolt. Alec stretches his arms overhead, shoulders rolling back as he lowers them again and pulls out his stele. The speed rune is relatively simple to draw, one Alec uses fairly often. He doesn't flinch when he burns it into his skin and stows his stele again. Caution is probably the better bet, in his mind, but he doesn't think anything he tries to say is going to make a difference to Tommy.

"Let's go."