The mage had blindsided her with the rapid succession of hellblasts targeted on the stepvan. And then, when Maria put up an astral shield and confronted her with Stoney, the slitch called up a strange spell, the type of which Maria had never seen. A mana fog had surrounded Maria, filling the astral around her with a brilliant white glow. A radiance that blinded Maria’s astral vision, her astral sense of direction. She tried to run, but the glowing fog stuck to her. She’d been completely blind and couldn’t come back to her body.