Chapter 13: Rescue OperationAgain, stilling himself, Garner reached out with his mind. But the only presence in the building was the security guard at the front desk. A sense of ashen defeat threatened to overwhelm him. He looked down at Moriarty, and sighed.
Squatting down, he placed his fingertips on the man’s skull. Garner’s state of knowledge about the full working functionality of Sensitivity and Influence did not say that physical contact helped. But he didn’t imagine it could hurt. From the sense of physical contact, he was more aware of the Caretaker’s bodily state, that was certain.
Calming himself, reaffirming his resolve to his task, he reached inside Moriarty’s mind again, and saw that already some repair work had been done. The outward manifestation of this was that the man’
