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

Part 26

“Yes they are, but they’ve chosen to wait for divinity until they grow up.” Mark told her, and made sure the rest heard it. “They recognize the value of the mortal state of being. Believe me, as wonderful as this is, I still wish I hadn’t had to do it yet. I sure didn’t feel finished with enjoying life as a mortal yet, and now I can’t go back. I can decide to have a mortal body and ignore all my new characteristics, but there’s no fooling yourself about not being the same.”

“We think they’re so much better than us because they shared your minds completely for seven years.” Kimran stated. “If we hadn’t been so stupid and we’d shared with you completely when we first developed psionics, we’d have shared your minds for seven years by now too, and we’d be just as good as they are.

“They said we should wait until we’re better before we shared ourselves with you completely, but none of us want to wait. We know we haven’t been very nice, but you already know that, and I don’t think we’re really any worse inside than we showed you we were with our behavior.”

“All of us want to share ourselves with all of our parents.” Meechla told him. “And we want to do it from now on, as much as we can.

“And I want to say this again, all of us do, to all of you; I’m really sorry I’ve been so stupid and bad.”

“That’s okay, we forgive you.” Mark smiled. “We won’t share with you completely; there were a few things we never shared with them either, and it’s not safe to share the new aspects of us that we just got. But we’ll share as much with you as we shared with them, and that’s almost all of it.

Then he, Talia, and Alilia built a deep Link between themselves and the Volunteers and their children, establishing it slowly so it was comfortable for everyone.

There were many tears shed over the next few minutes due to the profound sharing of selves and love and pain and regret.

into his arms. “You lied to them.” he chuckled, a bit sadly. “You didn’t want them to share with us right away because you didn’t want us to realize how badly we messed up when we were raising

left arm. “Sometimes the ends really do justify the means. Sometimes a kid deserves a

god now.” Val smiled as she brushed away a tear that was trickling down his cheek. “You don’t have to cry if you don’t want

would trigger it. If we suppress our emotions, or our natural expression of them, pretty soon we won’t even think

I can see myself

your combat effectiveness score?” Six asked,

more. Plus everything I can do with god power, plus the ability to do a lot more at once due to better awareness and

to use it. And

you say, it will be good to test

with a sudden frown. “Join me in this; I want to make sure

Talia, Alilia, Povon, Kragorram, Equemev and Silaran joined their will with his. He considered asking Yazadril, Nemia, Hilsith, Dalia and Bezedil to assist as well, and realized that they were busy with their own affairs in First Valley. Somonik and Grakonexikaldoron were occupied in Xervia. He decided that if those present couldn’t do what

and Visinniria what had been done by the pantheon to apprehend and hold The Sylvan God of Stealth, and

and those assisting him searched for Quewanak, found him, and forced him to

on your Ascensions. I hope that we can put aside our differences and resume the great friendship

Mark sternly told him.