"Um, I can feel everyone in the castle, feel the land outside, the things growing in it. Let me try something. Normally, I can't feel the masters. They're dead, see? Nothing to heal."

He reaches out, searching through the human shaped holes in his awareness of the world around him. The change is more than skin deep. He can feel everything, down to single celled organisms. He can narrow that focus in on one little bacteria floating in the air; make it blossom into a colony or die in place. It's amazing. He reaches out for Laurie, feels the comforting warmth of her presence, even though the two of them are seperated by miles of rock.

The vampires are an offense to his senses. He feels around them, using microorganisms in the suddenly soup-like air as his senses. There's the Queen, in the throne room, playing with...oh. Oh oh oh. She'll punish him, punish Laurie if she finds out he had anything to do with it, but Yeshua gently creates an anuerysm and pops it. It's a mercy.

"I...I can't reach her. I'm trying. I swear, but there's nothing there to reach. My powers are useless on the dead."