“Not at all. Remember, it had been years since my last harvest. My store of Essence inside my body had depleted by that time, so all that I had expelled from my body was energy. There were no abilities … or, at least, there shouldn’t have been.” He looked down at the table with narrowed eyes. “I felt the collisions between my energy and Essence, even though it was happening outside of my body. It was as if my sense of touch had expanded to include my now-external energy. The sensation overwhelmed me … until I went numb and had a vision.”