The Fire and The Storm - The Nexus of Kellaran #2

Chapter 38

Part 8

“He’s taught us to hide our psionics a lot better too,” Reggie added, “So most people here think this is all being done with physical magic instead of psionics, and none of them know when we’re Reading them anymore. I think we could fool everyone here now except you, Quewanak, and Father.”

“Yah, thanks again, Quewanak!” Helemia told him with happy sincerity.

“You are most welcome.” Quewanak responded in a throbbing snarl as he delicately ripped a clawful of beef from the carcass. “Your psionic ability is unprecedented, especially at your ages, and your training with it may prove crucial to the war effort. And with the exception of your father, you’re easier to train in Draconian psionic techniques than any other non-Draconians I’ve perceived. Likely this is due to your early Linking with Kragorram.”

“Probably, that’s how we know how to speak Draconian, anyway.” Reggie agreed.

“I think the fact that they inherently use two kinds of power probably helps too.” Mark opined as he and Talia took their seats. “They and Valentia are the only non-dragons that do that, as far as I know, and we know that psionics uses magic from Yazadril and Alilia’s research.”

“True, though we now know that psionics is done in a different part of the brain from physical magic.” Yazadril contributed. “Tithian’s team figured that out. And we correlated her findings with a survey of when psionic development occurs. It’s almost always before or after the development of physical magical ability, they’re almost never simultaneous, regardless of race.”

“That’s obvious here.” Reggie laughed. “Me and Helemia don’t have magic yet, and Valentia doesn’t have psionics yet. She’s close though, she’ll get it pretty soon. I just hope we get magic soon too.”

teased. “You’d best slow down some, or we’re likely

“In the

most of their attention

to had reached its finale, the twins Levitated

music now, and we’ll also be having a one-turn badra tournament. Everyone who wants to play gets one turn to score for the tournament. You can keep playing after everyone’s played a turn, but only your first turn counts for the tournament, and

tournament, Reggie and I

and end the party at four hours to midnight, because by

a chuckle and a round of polite applause, and jaunty music was heard by all. Soon couples were moving

and the largest hole at the bottom worth one point. A player had to throw at the holes selected by their dice roll, so to get the maximum score of sixteen required a great deal of both skill and luck. This ensured that almost everyone had a chance to win the tournament, so it was a good choice of

allowed, Nek allowed that they could roll the dice by cupping their hand over the dice table and shaking the whole table like a dice cup. When they took their turns, each laid

took a ball from Nek’s hand between the claw-tips of his forefinger and thumb, closed one eye, and made his toss

effort. “My throws were comparable with most

grain of

five centimeter wide ivory ball between the pads of her fingertip and thumb, and she threw with a motion similar to his. She made both of her throws, but had only rolled a six and

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