Part 4
The babes couldn’t help but giggle at the slightly-ticklish sensation of the dragons’ soft warm fuzziness against their skin.
“Thank you for this, Povon.” Helemia said as her body continued giggling. “You’re a lot less scary this way. Still very scary, like a hurricane contained in a teacup, but less.”
“Ah, and why should I be so scary?” Povon teased. “Your father has more power than I, and Yazadril has a greater intellect. Or are they equally scary?”
“We don’t sense magic power yet, and Mother and Father haven’t given us access to the magic part of their minds yet. And intellect isn’t very scary. But we sense psionic power quite well on our own, and you have more of that than anyone. You’re only projected into this body, but still, being this close to you is like being beside a big fire.”
“You think?” Povon chuckled. “There are others in this room who have greater psionic power than I.”
“No there aren’t, I’m sure of it.” the baby girl replied, puzzled.
“Yazadril, cast a Measurement for psionics, would you please?” Povon asked as she turned to the senior elf. “Now, who in this room has the greatest psionic power?”
“They do, Reggie and Helemia!” Yazadril marveled. “And psionicly speaking, there’s only one of them! I’ve never seen such a close Linking between two minds before. Some parts of their minds are quite individual and distinct, but other parts, including their psionic ability, are shared so closely that they are literally of one mind!”
“Oh. I never thought of that.” Helemia admitted.
At that moment Povon realized that as Kragorram continued hugging Reggie, the two had been communicating privately. Since Kragorram almost never excluded her from his thoughts, she was surprised. “My Love?” she inquired.
quietly replied. “And he has let me
my very best friend.” Reggie stated. “That’s a prophesy.” he added in a matter-of-fact
prophet now?” Talia
just felt like saying that,
in surprise as he considered his son’s aura. “You’ve got the same thing in your aura that Tithian and the other Seers have! Helemia
“Can you see the glow of their magic
You’re so bright that way that I keep my Optical
about that.”
a good look at you without anyone else’s glow distracting from it.” Mark said as he waited for Povon to move
difference between a seer and
to happen, and it’s almost certain to happen, but when it’ll happen isn’t known. A seer usually has at least some indication of when something will happen, and sometimes they know the time of the event exactly, but they’re usually less precise about the exact nature of the event. Both of those often foresee important events. An oracle generally only foresees in response to a question, the answer is seldom time-specific, and is usually quite cryptic; worded so as to be difficult to understand, but
aspect isolation technique that
was also used for a
the bedroom and exchanged Helemia for Reggie. Now they were back again, and he took his seat as Yazadril finished. He had a big proud grin on
Do you happen to know how
don’t know that I ever used my full exertion then, and I only have my mother’s account of what I did, which wasn’t precise. Perhaps I had a hundredth of my present power then.
same as an
“About that.” she smiled.
average for The High People is a heck of a lot for a newborn. Helemia glows about a third as bright as that. But they also glow in another color that I’ve only seen in one other person, since I don’t see my own glow, and that was Glup of the Zurb. I’m assuming that means that they can use the power of the second source, and they’re both warlocks like me. And in that color, Helemia glows about twice as bright as Reggie. But I have no idea how strong they are as warlocks, because I have no idea how bright I’d have glowed when I was