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After entering the minds of the two psychics, events happened almost too quickly in succession for Rue to keep track of it all. She withdrew from the two just as Lev's bullet pierced the woman - death was not something that she liked to experience firsthand, even if it would take a while for the struggling woman to finally pass over.

While everyone else was busy doing what is what that they did - her bodyguard ate more human bodies, the old man dealt with death in his own unique way, the psychic woman... stood around and watched - Rue heard the footsteps of several men approaching, and reached out instinctively to judge their distance. She sighed with exhasperation and ran to stand by the artificer, making sure that her investment would not be killed.

When the men with the guns were in sight and Lev had successfully provoked them ("You are not helping!!"), Rue summoned a burst of energy and latched onto each of their minds, evoking in them random collective images of torture and pain, death and darkness, overlapping their conscious thought with every imaginable fear they might have, preventing them from taking action or understanding their situation.

With her concentration on distracting the soldiers still in place, Rue shouted to the others, "We must go. Now!"