It was not as if he had not anticipated something like this happening, and he knew a rather easy solution to the problem. Soul points.
Rowan wanted to use his Soul point to accelerate the growth of the Soul Reaver bloodline; it could serve as a replacement to anything, even Spirit. If his Spirit was not enough, he would replace them with Soul points, a rather wasteful use of them but the situation demanded it.
About to start activating the Soul points, he paused when he heard a crack inside his Mental Space.
The massive blank face that had resided inside his Mental Space had a crack running down it from top to bottom, as a result of the chaos transpiring inside the ephemeral space.
The suction force from the Soul Reaver bloodline was so strong that it began eating the next best source of Spirit inside his Mental Space—The blank face.