To his meat eyes, nothing seemed to be happening. But with those strange, arcane senses he’d never known he had, it was obvious that something was going down. He could feel a flow of energy, initially from Mary herself, but then shifting so that the flow came from outside—apparently from the structure of the building and from the ground on which it was built. It formed a swirling vortex around her, totally undetectable by the normal five senses, but obvious to his heightened perception.