What?! She jolted, if this time it didn't ask for a physical pull. Or it did, but she checked the impulse a moment later, disoriented, her own panic flaring. Sakura tamped down on it, mental energy focused inward again.

At first her breathing was regularizing his, if the panic that generated caused her to jump again before trying another way. It was very, very difficult to turn off her connection to functions she was used to having immense control over. Yet if she shut down, if she started meditating, maybe she could make it happen.

Abruptly, Sakura went "radio" silent, her feelings tampered down and more of a warm brush than an immediate, all concerning rush.