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"How do you feel?" I asked.
She smiled up at me.
"I can see what E meant," she said. "That smell is weird. It kind of smells like blood, but not quite the same." I nodded to her.
"Anything else?" I asked.
She blinked her eyes a couple of times. "Things are a little blurry," she said. "It's like there are coloured smudges around people."
I shared a glance with the twins. It seemed like she was seeing auras.
"Well," I said, "give it a minute to settle down, and then see."
We waited for a few minutes while Melanie blinked and looked around owlishly.
"It's still there," she said. "What is it?"
"I suspect," I said, "that you are seeing auras."
"What does that mean?" she asked.
"That means," I said, "that you have Empathy. Now, if you have Compulsion too, which I suspect you will, then that means two things. You'll have at least another two powers and you will be able to become a Healer."
She squealed with delight. "That's so cool!" she gushed.
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves," I said. "Try your Compulsion."
She looked at Louise. "May I?" she asked. Louise smiled at her and nodded.
The next I knew, Louise had closed with Josh and was doing her damndest to find his tonsils with her tongue.
"That's probably enough," I said gently to Melanie. "Let her go now."
She released Louise, who took a little time before she, in turn, released Josh.
"The colors have changed," she said looking at the pair. "They were kind of multicolored before but now they're pretty much all one color.
I looked at the pair and saw they were both a rich deep purple.
I grinned. "The colors that you see are personal to you but whatever color that is you're seeing now, that means horny. I think you got them both a little wound up."
She grinned. "I'll remember that one."
Louise sat back down breathing heavily. Josh too was panting a little.
"Your other powers will probably show themselves over the next few days," I told her. "Like I said to E - try not to get stressed or angry. We know for sure you have at least two other powers, and we won't know what they are until they show themselves. Other than that, how do you feel?"
"Awesome," she said. "My head feels clearer. It feels like I can think more clearly now than I could before."
I nodded to her. "Like I told you. The amulet did affect your mental acuity. How you feel now is your new 'normal'."
"Wow," she said. "It feels different. Clearer, like I've stepped out of a muggy room into the fresh air."
While we'd been working, E had relinquished his seat to Sarah and she was looking at me nervously. Brian, her dad, was on her other side and he was holding her hand. I saw him squeeze it gently as I approached her.
"Are you ready?" I asked. "There's no rush. We don't have to do it today if you're not."
Sarah looked at me for a minute but then shook her head. "No," she said. "I want it gone. I'm going to need all my brain power when I start at PSU.
"Okay then," I said.
She held out her arm to me, and once more I pressed the device to her wrist. The LED went Red and then green. I watched carefully as I pulled the device away and saw the disk, capturing it with my TK and bringing it to my hand before dropping it in my pocket for now.
In the moment that I'd been distracted, Sarah had been looking around, a look of distress on her face. "No," she said. "No, no please..."
Then she put her hands over her ears and screamed.
- COMMENTS
Rapierwit246013 months agoYour ethics class is still ridiculously unbelievable.
Likewise unbelievable, that a girl with only a GED, no school records and no ACT or SAT scores would be admitted to even a mediocre university MID-SEMESTER? Poppycock!
The story, however, is wonderful. The concept that there are some among us with Super-psychic powers, that the FBI has a psychic squad and that there’s an international cabal of super powered families? Completely credible! I believe every word.
Better start writing faster. I started reading this a few weeks ago and I’m catching up to you very quickly.
Anonymous9 months agodoes not (as yet explained), dismiss the need to share.
Now that's out of my head, I will leave that can of worms here.
I suggest that at the end of each story you add a list of characters introduced (or mentioned) in that chapter... Also including if characters have noteworthy "changes in status", I would use Edgar Cross as an example. (An overall cast list is great, BUT would necessarily include spoilers, I get around that by a spreadsheet with a spoiler column with shrunken text so its unreadable unless you select the cell). I for one remember the big reveals... so Spoilers.
Lolilol4710 months agoHe will need to move if he picks up more strays haha.
Thank you for the chapter.
Anonymous10 months agoLove all the twists and turns of this story. Now the suspense of waiting what has been 10 days now to find out what power or powers Sarah has. I remember some old TV shows that would leave you hanging at the end of the show and you had to wait till the next week to find out what happened. PM your killing me here waiting for the next episode of the story its addictive!!!!
DreamsIncarnate10 months agoI find myself checking everyday if you've posted. This story has me hooked. It reminds me of the many stellar manga that I've read over the years. Keep up the amazing work👌🏿
Anonymous10 months agoApologies, this is my first comment despite reading 59 chapters and rating all of them as 5 star. I simply didn’t have time to read, analyse and comment - one had to go, and I chose to be selfish.
So far I’m (obviously) hooked. I read all chapters in a week, so 4 - 6 per day as a minimum. I love the characters, the twists peppered throughout the story so far, the pacing and the originality. I read a lot, and the plot and language holds up against a lot of commercially published work. As a European, I find the mix of good old American values (right to bear arms, distrust of all things government and pride in all who serve) an interesting dichotomy against the dislike of religion (especially religious institutions) and the free thinking/acceptance of LGBQT+. It’s all food for thought and is generally well presented in the background of the plot and characters- but clearly they’re for consideration and thought. Keep going, sixty chapters ain’t no hill for a climber. I believe this author is nothing less than a literary Sherpa,and thousands of avid readers are his following hill climbers.
Anonymous10 months agoThat was a heck of a way to end the chapter, poor Sarah, I hope things are going to work out for her. As for your pre story comment, you have my permission to make this the never ending story, we’ll all keep happily reading forever. Thanks KS
Zero_Nullnix10 months agoThank you so much.
I wonder if you will ever know quite how much your story means to some of your readers. Your work is more than entertainment: it is profoundly moving and thought provoking. The ability to write so much love is a valuable thing.
Selfishly, I don't want this series to stop - ever.
This is the first time in years that I've actually been motivated to log into the site. You may even have given me a reason to start writing again.
Thank you.
DistantConstellation10 months agoPastMaster, thanks for this. You've gifted us, but also yourself, with a rare thing - a literary world big enough and consistent enough and well-peopled enough (with sufficient differences) that it's going to be spinning stories at you for a very long time, each unfolding how sentience deals with and puts to use a very new way of interacting with the world. It's a special, special thing, and I trust you'll enjoy it, and the pleasure of singing the stories you see, for many many stories ahead.
For now - I suspect Sarah's anguish and terror is also a marker for her power? Likely she'll be very strong.
Anon wondering about PK - I believe that's "pyrokinesis" - fire making, a very dangerous power. I may have it wrong but that's how I read it.
Literphile10 months agoSomeone mentioned Telepathy and Empathy... Actually that's a way better answer than what I'd come up with. I just thought.. oh she has Empathy and all that talk about endless sexual partners including incestual ones just scared the crap out of her.
Just saying.. they could have led with all the cool stuff about Empathy and how it can be way more powerful than Compulsion and shit ton more legal apparently. Haha.
I'm still wondering why he hasn't just altered Pricktard Empathetically?!
