The massive glowing presence filled their reality, shining with intense light like a newborn star. At its bright center was a swirling consciousness - an awakening supermind that turned its full, piercing Gaze upon them.

Lisa felt that godmind's powerful Focus scorching into her very core with the intense heat of the sun's inner flames. All sense of her individual self seemed to burn away to ashes under that divine scrutiny. What remained was only her most basic, primal essence..."bare" before that supreme awareness in a way too profound to fully understand.

Beside her, Draco convulsed and choked, reduced to an animalistic state - stripped of higher intellect down to...