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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">I have not posted in a
bit, so you get an entire chapter, Chapter XXX because it is
between Chapters 11 and 12.<br>
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“A ten-year-old
with a <span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:George"
datetime="2016-12-24T23:08"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></del></span>Krell
pistol?” Krystal’s question
was purely rhetorical. “Why not a strategic transmutation bomb,
too? Hopefully
he realizes it is not a toy? And how did his shields not go
down?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“I don’t know who his parents are,” Morgana answered. “I
don’t know where
he lives.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The geas
ensured that.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It
wouldn’t have blocked me, but I never met
Joe to ask. I don’t know what he did with the pistol, the
matching force field
bracer, or why he was so interested in playing Janie. Extremely
strong shields
covers a great deal of uninformative ground.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Asking him your questions requires that he shows up again
to play Janie,
which he has not done in several weeks. In fact, not since
Eclipse made off
with the Namestone. Hmm.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I
wonder if Joe
knows Eclipse. That would explain how she found out about the
move. If you
count, someone planted that geas.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>This
kid has shields as good as yours, except he was perhaps ten at
the time. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Also, after
Joe rescued Janie, something
marched through the Castle Island Jail, exfoliated the
kidnappers’ minds, and neutralized
the Perversion Circle. That something that does not appear to
have been Joe. There
are some really first rate personas <span class="msoDel"><del
cite="mailto:George" datetime="2016-12-24T23:08">mmoving</del></span><span
class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:George"
datetime="2016-12-24T23:08">moving</ins></span> near the
Wells family, without leaving enough of a trace that I can
identify them.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“On the bright side,” Krystal said, “Joe has had that
thing for the
better part of two years now, and I haven’t heard about any
large urban areas
getting flattened. Wait a moment.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The
giant reptile in Washington last year.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>It was taken out by that teenager with a Krell disruptor,
and a force
field bracer. Except she for sure did not disguise herself as a
ten year old
boy.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Not then, not a
year earlier.
Except she said she had a boyfriend.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And
they’d done memory deletion to forget each other.” Krystal took
another bite
out of her scone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“Silk,” Morgana said. “Protégé of Kniaz Kang.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She goes to school across
the street from his
restaurant. But she’s…just a moment.” Morgana held up her right
hand and
gestured with her fingers.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Then
she
frowned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“Something wrong?” Krystal asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“I have tracers on all five Wells family people,”
Morgana said.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“Something
just happened to Jessamine
Trishaset. She’s conscious, in school, not frightened, not using
her gifts. Her
mood just switched to catastrophic forboding.” Morgana gestured
again. “She is
walking down a corridor, between classes. There is no obvious
threat. Her
brother is walking the other way, away from her.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“Teenagers,” Krystal said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“True. Also a difficult family situation. Her sister is
a Highly
Esteemed. Her brother builds astounding models.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>She is way above grade level, does huge amounts of
housework, is a
fitness fanatic, sews her own clothing, and her parents simply
do not notice.
They didn’t even say anything to her after I told them how fast
a flier she
is.” Morgana shook her head. “It’s tearing the poor kid apart.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“How charming,” Krystal said. “All this, and we may have
a war on our
hands. ‘May’ is too optimistic. The first question is whether
the IncoAztecans
will wait for an Eclipse sighting as an excuse to invade, will
fake an Eclipse
sighting as an excuse to invade, or will simply lie and claim
there was an
Eclipse sighting. Then there are the Brazilians and the
Argentines. I have not
heard anything about a Lemurian Rising to take advantage of the
situation, but
that’s certainly a possibility. At least last Fall their
invasion of China was
met with a unified world response and was defeated. I certainly
couldn’t
promise that would happen now. However, you’ve answered my key
question, it is
2 P.M. sharp, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>and this
afternoon I have
another 24 hours of work to complete. At least.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“Understood,” Morgana answered. “You must go.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Please do keep the scones
you haven’t
finished yet.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">ChapterXXX<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Benjamin Franklin Technical
Junior High
School<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Joseph Henry Boulevard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Corridor Nine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">January 16, 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">1:53 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">Brian Wells stared down the corridor.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>He absolutely had to talk to Trisha to warn her, and this
was the only
time in the day that their paths crossed. Except half the time
she took the
other corridor and the second set of stairs.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>There she was.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He
hurried toward
her.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He had to tell her
what he’d heard,
and then not be late for his class.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">Trisha saw Brian pointing at her, smiled, and stopped.
“I’ve got a
class,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">“Me too.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Urgent,”
Brian said. “I
went back to get my homework this morning.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>I heard mom and dad talking.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Mom
is still totally hacked off you went cloud diving with Joe.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Totally and completely. She
even raised her
voice.” Trisha folded in on herself.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>“Dad was still just as angry. ‘She’s a disgrace to the
family’ was his
line. He said he’d put a stop to that.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>And if you didn’t he’d ground you, no flying or anything,
for a year.”
Trisha almost burst into tears. “Sorry, but forewarned is
prepared.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Got to run.”
Trisha, ashen-faced, trudged off
to her next class. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">* * * * *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">The Wells Residence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Arbalest Street <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Medford, Massachusetts <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">3:45 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Hello! I’m home,” Trisha
called, hoping
there would be no answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Good afternoon, Trisha,”
Abigail called from
her first floor office. “Didn’t you have singing today? Did
anything else
happen?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Music is tomorrow, Mom. <span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Tomorrow I’m here at quarter
of five. Someone,
I forget, thought I knew something about this Joe fellow. I
don’t. He always
was here to play City with Janie. I certainly wasn’t going to
mention stacking
all the firewood.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“You didn’t tell people about
cloud diving,
did you?” Abigail asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Mom! Give away I’m a persona.
N. O. No.
Besides, that was last Fall, a long time ago,” she answered.
“I’d almost
forgotten about it.” You would have been happy to do it more
often, but he was
too busy with some project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“But whenever he was here, you
would sit
talking with him,” Abigail continued.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Mother,” Trisha said, “he was
a guest in the
house, so I was polite. He’d always be here on time, Janie’s
chess class always
let out late, and you not me said he should come inside, not sit
on the front
porch, so I talked with him rather than leaving him alone until
Janie got back,
even though he was a boy and so he didn’t know much and was
really dull even if
I had to laugh at his jokes. And then Janie would show up and
they’d break out
her game board.” They were always funny jokes, she thought. He
knew a lot about
all sorts of things. And he was ahead of me in math. All that
time I wasted
singing to keep mom happy led to that. “Are there any chores
that need doing?
I’ll get the dishes and furniture polished soon as I change out
of my school
clothes but I have a lot of homework.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“You never went cloud diving
again?” Abigail
asked/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“That was last Fall, mom.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Twice,” Trisha said.
“Morgana wanted me to
practice, and I found someone to practice with, just like Brian
and his base
ball nines team and Janie and all her game opponents.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“But you asked Janie if she’d
seen him.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Several
times,” Abigail said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“I was being polite,” Trisha
said.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Just like I’m
being polite now, no matter I
want to go to my room. Why is she quizzing me? “Janie really
liked him as an
opponent because he remembered everything from their back games
and kept
improving so that when she last saw him she really had to work
hard to beat
him, and he never complained, which boys like to do because they
don’t like to
lose. So are there any other chores that need doing?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Promise me you won’t go cloud
diving with
him again.” Abigail said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“How can I, mom?<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He’s disappeared.” She
spread her hands in
confusion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Jessamine Trishaset, I asked
you a
question!” Abigail snapped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">No, Trisha thought, you
didn’t. But it
doesn’t matter. No, I will not ask why. You’ll only get angrier.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Besides, it doesn’t matter,
and I don’t care
what the answer is. “Yes, mother, I promise I won’t go cloud
diving with him
again.” The wonderful advantage of super speed, she thought, is
that you can
wait until you calm down, enough you don’t say something stupid,
and no one
else can tell. Just concentrate on none of this mattering. “Are
there any other
chores that need doing?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Your father was going to put
his tool chest
in order.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He’ll need a
week,” Abigail
said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“On it,” Trisha answered. She
trudged up the
stairs. It was a wonderful house, she thought .Mom and dad had
their second
floor bedroom wing. Janie had the second floor rear, the new
extension, built
like a rock to support her books.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Brian
had second floor front and lots of space for model stuff, and
she had third
floor front for bedroom and the tower room for studying. <span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Third floor back and sides
were guest rooms. The
tower room was a wonderful conceit of a former owner. It was
high above the
street, with glass on all four walls. Its ceiling was painted
the palest of
cocoas.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Hanging form the
ceiling’s apex
was a black, wrought-iron chandelier; more light from the room
came from the
line of fluorescent lights hiding behind valances along the
ceiling’s
perimeter. The walls, where they were not glass, were walnut;
the floor was
bleached maple. Brian had helped Trisha build bookshelves on
three of the
sides.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Two had rows of
shelving and then
a wide sill that held two dozen potted plants, violets and
christmas cactus. At
the outside of each sill was a grate letting the perimeter
radiators heat the
room. One side was a long, wide window seat on which she could
lie down. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Under the
window seat was a secret
compartment, and inside the secret compartment was a second
secret
compartment.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A third
secret compartment
went into the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It
was small, but
good for money and jewelry.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It
would
have been good for jewelry, she thought, if she’d ever had any.
The last side
was a desk with a big writing surface and a computer. <span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If she went up to the tower,
no one ever, ever
bothered her, so she could study in complete peace and quiet. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">She slipped out of her school
clothing, into
her chore clothing, summoned her gifts and flew down the stairs.
Extreme care
meant that she made not a sound while emptying the dishwasher,
oiling all the
living room furniture, and dry-mopping the floor. Then she
dropped down to the
basement. There were masses of tools, not in their right places
in the tool
chests. That was easy to fix, even taking the time to oil all
the metal parts.
All sorts of nuts and bolts and nails were in a big pile, with
neat ranks of
empty sorting trays behind them.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>She
focused, calling deeply on her gifts.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Sorting
everything, cleaning the now-exposed workbench, floor, and
everything else,
seemed to go on forever. Almost an hour had gone by, real time.
Her hands hurt
from all the work she’d done. She realized she had cleaned up
some of Brian’s
modelling power tools. She’d have to apologize to him. He was
sensitive about
that. It was time to go upstairs and bury herself in her books.
She almost made
it as far as the kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Trisha,” Abigail asked.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“Where were you? I went up
to your room, and
you weren’t there.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“I was in the basement,” she
answered. What
was the question? After all, she was coming up the stairs. “I
cleaned up Dad’s
workbench for him, sorted everything, and cleaned the place up.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And now I need a bath.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I smell of machine oil. And
then I need to
start studying.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“You understand why I made you
promise that,
don’t you?” Abigail asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Yes, mother,” Trisha
answered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Why?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Because you said so, mother,”
Trisha
answered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“No, the better reason,” she
said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Mother, that’s the best
possible reason,” Trisha
answered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Go to your room! Go to your
room, and don’t
come down until I tell you to!” Abigail shouted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Yes, mother,” Trisha
answered. She headed up
the stairs, keeping the tears inside until she’d reached her
room and started
filling the bathtub. They noise would hide her crying.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She’d been very patient for
very long, but
eventually she’d reached her limits. No matter what she did, her
parents talked
her down. She’d need a shower first, but then a soak would help.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Her hands ached.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">The Tower Room<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">The Wells Residence <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Medford, Massachusetts <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">7:45 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Trisha looked up from her
homework. She’d
heard the door knob of her bedroom turn. She listened carefully.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Those were Dad’s footsteps,
coming across her
carpet and up the stairs to her tower. He hardly ever came up
here. She made
herself concentrate on her homework. Proving the quadratic
formula required a
bit of work.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Proving the
cubic formula
was a chore, but it was a homework problem in the book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Jessamine Trishaset!” Dad’s
voice was from the
top of the stairs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Oh, hi Dad.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>I didn’t hear you,” she said, looking over her shoulder.
She stood. And
I didn’t hear his voice before now, she thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Jessamine Trishaset, you were
not at
dinner,” he said sternly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Mom told me to go to my room
until she
called me. She hasn’t, so I’m here,” she answered. “By the way,
I cleaned up
your work bench and got everything sorted.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Stop changing the topic!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Yes, dad.”<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>I did all that work, she thought, and he doesn’t even
care.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“You understand why your
mother is upset?”
Patrick Wells asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“No, I don’t. What is wrong?”
Trisha decided
after it was too late that that had not been the right answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Of course you do!” He balled
his fists. “You
are to stay in your rooms until breakfast tomorrow, appear at
breakfast, go to
school, and until I say otherwise you will be in your room, at
meals, at
school, or in transit.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Yes, dad,” she answered.
“Chores?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“You will also do all of your
chores,
whatever your mother says,” Patrick said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Yes, dad,” she answered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“And remember, I love you and
we are doing
this for your own good,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">I will not say anything, she
thought. I know
he wants me to say that I love him, too, but I will not say
that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Don’t you have something to
say?” he finally
asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“I have homework to do,”
Trisha answered
coldly.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Patrick stamped
down the stairs,
slamming her bedroom door behind him. After a while she realized
she had been
staring at the stairway, waiting for her hands to stop shaking,
for a good ten
minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Sunssword had been very clear
about super
speed. Trisha knew that she could turn down her gifts much of
the way, lie down
and sleep for nine hours, and only that number of minutes would
have passed. But
she wouldn’t get more than ten minutes older. So long as she was
very quiet, that
was an extra eight hours of reading or studying every night. She
hadn’t done it
before, but the online classes would let her do it.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She could wing her way at
lightspeed through
all her courses, finish high school, and she’d be entitled to
leave. The school
handbook said so. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Sunssword
had also
warned her not to try studying at superspeed, not until she’d
had her gifts
considerably longer, because it wouldn’t work right, which was a
nuisance. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>After tonight,
leaving couldn’t happen soon
enough.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">The Tower Room<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">The Wells Residence <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Medford, Massachusetts <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">January 17, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">1:00 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Trisha stretched and yawned.
She’d had her
nine hours of sleep, compressed into as many minutes, but it was
still strange
to be reading at this hour.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The
blinds
were all pulled. They were metalized honeycomb, light-opaque; no
one could tell
that she was here. And if dad or mom came to check on her, she
would turn
invisible, fly downstairs, and be in bed before they opened her
bedroom- door. The
screen on her computer was flat white, giving more than enough
light for reading,
at least with her vision. Being confined to her room created a
problem for
exercise.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There was an
after-school
fitness club; she could switch out of music into that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><?></span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"> The question was telepathy,
but it didn’t
sound like Janie. That was a bit alarming.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Janie and Brian had really solid mindscreens. She had
next to nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">“Yes?” she whispered. <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><Does this work?><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><GR.
Brian here.></span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><What?
How?></span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">
she asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><Dad
and Mom announced we can’t talk to you, except over a meal
with them
there.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And Janie was
ordered not to use mentalics
to talk to you. So we switched powers, just for a few moments.
No one told us
not to. We had to wait until Dad and Mom are both asleep.></span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"> Brian explained.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><What
is going on? What did I do?> </span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">Trisha said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><They
won’t tell us. It’s something to do with Joe and
cloud-diving,> </span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Brian
said. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><And Dad is
waiting for Joe to
show up. He’s really mad at Joe. No.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He
said he’s going to kill Joe, and I’m not sure he was
joking.><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><Wait.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Please tell Janie I’m
sure Joe and I never
talked about City of Steel. I barely know the rules,></span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"> Trisha said. She shifted in
her seat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">GR.
She says, she never thought you told him anything. And if you
did, you didn’t
know it was important, so she forgives you,> </i>Brian
answered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Good.><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><Are
you still awake? You’re sitting.> </span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">Brian said.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
<It’s real
late.><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><I
got nine hours of sleep. In ten minutes.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Super speed does that.></span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt"> Her stomach growled. She had missed dinner. <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><Absolutely positively don’t tell mom or dad! So
I’m reading. It
doesn’t matter.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>No
matter what I do, I
don’t even get thanked. I only get blamed. I even cleaned up
Dad’s workbench
for him, and all he said was ‘Don’t change the topic.’><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><We’d
help you, but we don’t understand either. At dinner mom and
dad were both
angry, and spent the whole time lecturing us.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>And wouldn’t let us ask any questions. What they said,
it made no
sense,> </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Brian
said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><Tomorrow.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She’s asleep now. Ask
Professor Lafayette.
She might have an answer.> </span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Trisha
wished that was true, not that it mattered. Nothing really
mattered any more,
except getting out of here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><We’re
here.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But trading
powers is a real
strain,> </span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Brian said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><Then
put them back.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And go
back to
sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It was really
great of you to try
this. Wait! Tell Trisha she doesn’t know that Joe and I didn’t
talk about her
move. We can’t have Mom and Dad figure out we’re talking to
each other.><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><She
says: Thanks for reminding her,> </span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt">Brian said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><I
love you both. Good night,> </span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Trisha
said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><We
love you, too,> </span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Brian
answered.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The mentalic
link vanished.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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