Node would lower the difficulty of arete rolls a bit.
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Gand is struggling, his face pale and his teeth clenched... as the blackness in Aiden grows Gand will back off, lest he be drawn too deeply in...

With no small amount of effort he will peel his hands off her head and fall bodily to the side away from her to the floor.

As Gand falls away, the pressure in the room resumes back to normal, the temperature too. Everyone should feel fine, perhaps slightly tired or drained. I make no movements, laying still, trapped in my own mind for the moment. Who has control now? Something seems very off afterward.

She shakes her head and pulls herself up on the couch. She draws her knees to her chest, wraps her arms around them and buries her face into her folded arms. She muttering to herself, she still a little freaked out. She'll calm down after a minute and it'll be like nothing even happened.