The tense feeling of imminent disaster eased, as did the nightmares, and she began to relax, feeling that the crisis was well and truly over with. She talked to Peter once on the phone, and she told him that her days seemed to be slipping into a certain peacefulness which was soul healing and revitalising. Her mind was at ease like never before, for the one thing that she honestly felt that David had been able to somehow convey to her was his mental ability to block. It gave her a measure of control that she’d never had; it soothed her mind like nothing she’d ever known. She listened to the mental silence, reveled in it, and blossomed. She had achieved an apparently surpassable barrier, and could reach out with her mind. If she was sensitive to a person, like her mother, then she could feel their presence. It gave her a retreat, an important feeling of detachment. On the second day after her climactic confrontation with David, she went to see Grace Cessler, for the first time without a mental flinch at the visit.
