Part 11
You feel Tam's distress as you tear free of the tight mental link and you can feel the knock on effect of your sudden departure in the remnants of the link that remain. Around you the children look on the verge of tears as they struggle to cope with your rapid severance from them. You are struggling too, struggling to maintain your mental barriers, to protect the children.
You feel your shields slipping through your fingers and then you are aware of everything. Your powerful mind sweeps away the shields of Tam and the others in a moment leaving their vulnerable minds completely open to you.
You see faces crease with pain.
Stephen and Tyso are on their feet, racing towards you, now. They can feel what's happened but neither can replace your mental barriers in a moment. Desperate not to hurt the children around you further you take the only option left open to you.
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You teleport without any clear idea of where you are of where you're going. You let the waves of electricity swamp and surround you.
[Jay?!] You feel Stephen and Tyso reaching for you but in the swirling psychadelia of hyperspace it is difficult to feel where they are calling from. The random connections your mind is making leave you dizzy and feeling ill and unable to focus. All you know is that you can't go back. You'll only hurt people if you do.
Do you:
a) Resist Stephen's attempts to pull you back?
b) Reach out to the others for help?
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