was

what was truly hers. They were laughing, but a little breathlessly, really a little frightened now by what they’d almost done.
They’d never tried it again. They’d talked about it. They were almost certain it could be done, oh, quite safely! They’d be two telepaths still, two psis. It should be a perfectly simple matter to reverse the process at any time.
It should be. But even to those who were psis, and in psi, much more remained unknown about psi than was known. Anyone who gained any awareness at all understood there were limits beyond which one couldn’t go, or didn’t try to go. Limits beyond which things went oddly wrong.
The question was whether they would have passed such a limit in detaching themselves from their personality, acquiring that of another. It remained unan­swered.

What she had in mind now was less drastic in one respect, seemed more so in another. She would find out whether she could do it. She didn’t know what the final result would be if she couldn’t.
She dissolved her contact with Noal. It would be a distraction, and she could restore it later.
Larien Selk was fastened securely to his couch. Dasinger and Wergard then fastened Telzey as securely