### 186

You close your eyes, and summon the power of your Discipline. Drawing on your psychic reserve, you project a mental barrier to deflect the attack. Instantly the pressure in your head decreases and the pain subsides, releasing your senses from the icy paralysis of psychic shock.

Suddenly the attack breaks off, the abruptness of its passing leaving you reeling. As you open your eyes, you see at once the reason why the attack has ceased.

Turn to 60.