Ananda said the mantra, the word that would lead Maurice Ableson down into nothingness - the nothingness of peace, and darkness, and freedom from conscious thought.

But into the stillness of the mind broke a stream of terror, of seething corruption which he was powerless to control. He tried to escape, to waken from the nightmare, but without the help of Ananda, and the others who had the Power of the Sixth Perception - his mind was trapped in a pool of terror...