Cliff could feel the last bits of power and strength drain away from his body. Since he became immobilized, he’d been studying the corpses in the room, trying to figure out exactly how the strange power worked.

It had taken him a while, but eventually he realized what was going on. Attached to every corpse were thin, nearly invisible psynergy threads. When the being touched him earlier, green psynergy had spread out from there and caught him too. The threads were very ...