Daywards
“Ma continued flinging various items into her woven bag as quickly as she could.
A couple of metres away, the firelight exposing the fear in her eyes, Eyna stood silent as a stone, observing as Ma Saria, the most unflappable woman they knew, seemed oblivious to anything other than her own haste. Dara stepped forward and took the old woman firmly by her shoulders, pulling up just the tiniest touch of earthwarmth and trying to reach towards Ma Saria’s mind, just a fluttering, calming touch to try ...and restore some balance in the woman’s demeanour. It was something she’d never tried before, physically touching another mind, but she’d seen Ma Saria do it and was certain it wouldn’t be too difficult. So she was totally unprepared for what happened next.
The whole episode took less than half a second. As she first stretched her mind towards Ma Saria’s, there was nothing there, only a maelstrom of confusion, into which Dara probed gently.
Then a swamping, angry wave of fear pushed back into her, a hot wedge of consciousness, fuelled by terror, which swept her own feathery reaching aside with the contempt that one might use to slap the life out of a mosquito, and drove down into her, coursing through and filling her with a terrible, overwhelming sense of nothingness; of long-held ties completely and unexpectedly severed, leaving only perfect void behind in their place.MoreLess
A couple of metres away, the firelight exposing the fear in her eyes, Eyna stood silent as a stone, observing as Ma Saria, the most unflappable woman they knew, seemed oblivious to anything other than her own haste. Dara stepped forward and took the old woman firmly by her shoulders, pulling up just the tiniest touch of earthwarmth and trying to reach towards Ma Saria’s mind, just a fluttering, calming touch to try ...and restore some balance in the woman’s demeanour. It was something she’d never tried before, physically touching another mind, but she’d seen Ma Saria do it and was certain it wouldn’t be too difficult. So she was totally unprepared for what happened next.
The whole episode took less than half a second. As she first stretched her mind towards Ma Saria’s, there was nothing there, only a maelstrom of confusion, into which Dara probed gently.
Then a swamping, angry wave of fear pushed back into her, a hot wedge of consciousness, fuelled by terror, which swept her own feathery reaching aside with the contempt that one might use to slap the life out of a mosquito, and drove down into her, coursing through and filling her with a terrible, overwhelming sense of nothingness; of long-held ties completely and unexpectedly severed, leaving only perfect void behind in their place.MoreLess
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