[At the contact, the sensation is like a rush of clean water through her mind, sweeping everything dark out of the corners of her psyche and washing it away. Fear, insecurity, sadness, shame — every negative emotion that's been weighing her down — is swept into the distance, so far away it can no longer touch her.

Left behind is a feeling of warmth and well-being, and a gentle lightheartedness that wasn't there before.]