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[Thugren]

Cain has four of the children wheeled out and a woman comes in.

 

Her eyes are cold, creul. BUt you can see  she shares cains features.

 

"Take yours....I have waht i need. Take him to the Albaster orphanage...Ive arranmged for him to be raised there."

 

FUck you Augustus. "

 

The wwoman spits, cradling the child. "My son isnt a freak for you to make experiments with."

 

Augustus only turns, not saying a word and motions for the others to follow.

 

"No, he is more...Thats why i dont want him here."

 

 

 

YOu are slammed back into your body with a sickening drop. The world swims and you fall back into morganas arms as augustus places a hand on your forehead.

 

 

 

all at once, as if somone had placed barriers in your head the world goes quiet. The pulsing of the worlds blood fades. And like before, you are placed in your own head, alone, quietly. Except for your brother and sister of course.

[Lafayra Rue]

Sorianna laid prone, waiting for the disorientation to fade. She hated being in other peoples memories, she never forgot them, and now that her mind was quiet the images flashed by over and over. Her talons found the hard packed earth and sunk into it as easy as a hot knife through butter. She needed to hear again, if only for a moment, to distract her. With no practice dealing with just her own thoughts, Sorianna found herself lost in her own head.

 

"That was not teaching. That involved no form of teaching. You shoved your will into my head and made it quiet. I have no idea how to begin to do it myself nor how to open up again." Image to image, thought to thought, her mind had never sat still but now she could hear it and she didn't know how to handle her own thoughts. "I have to know how to control it myself."

[Thugren]

"Oh but you do Augustus smiles tiredly as if he had just ran a mile. 

 

 

"I just gave you every lesson you will ever need. You can call upon it like any memory....Its one of tyhe perks of being a true psionic...We can transfer ideas or thoughts into thingsd...... Much like that stalk that follows you."

[Lafayra Rue]

Sorianna calmed herself, pushing herself off her sister, and looked up at the man she was started to dislike more and more. He had to be joking. Teaching didn't work like that. It took time, practice. Just like her attempts to conquer her fear. She was highly skeptical but she tried listening for the sound of the earth's blood. Her gaze never left Augustus as she spoke.

 

"Your life must be worth a lot if you would just give me this."

[Thugren]

almost unbidden, the lessons scream in your mind, you know every lesson of closing your mind, opening , deflecting thoughts and intentions. .

 

 

"Quite the opposite girl...My life is worth nothing. I am worth nothing. I am no different from the bodies i left on the way here. One day when my son is ready  ill pay my tab to fate. BUt until then i have a duty...I have a job."

 

he begins to walk but stops as Jacob stands in front of him.

 

Instantly, uyou feel something is wrong. The presence is angry, the air seems to humm and suddenly vicious gouges tear into the walls like a mssive beast began ravaging the conrete. Augustus raises his hand, and jacob is gflung back, head iover heel as he slams into the tall grass.

 

"You want to do this now boy.....Ok...Fine."

 

for a split second you see waht loks like a figure standing behind  augustus. The figure is horribly sdisfigured and covered in bandages. Two massive tatterd wings hang from its back  and flap as augustus lunges forward.

 

"No..."

 

Morgana yelps, running after him.

 

"NO NO NO NO NO."

 

Jacob recovers, and the grass around him explodes. The earth is compacted beneath him as if an explosion had gone off and the raging boy lunges at augustus with a beastial snarl.

[Lafayra Rue]

"STOP!" It wasn't a scream of terror. Sorianna's voice came out like a command and with it her power washed over everyone. She had no idea how she was doing it but she wanted them all to stop. She was on her feet quicker than she thought she was able to and moving to the boy she had become so attached to. Her own safety didn't even cross her mind as she made to step between the two psionics.

[Thugren]

jacobs eyes are bleeding. Every nerv3e in his body fighting against the insane strength that Joeseph had over his brothers body.

 

 with a sqweep of his arm, you and morgana are sent back into the wall of the building, pinned by unnatural strngth as javob lifts his arm, slamming  augustus with an insane burst of strength, enough to send the seasoned warrior to his knee.

[Lafayra Rue]

Sorianna coughed hard, the pain in her throat making her eyes water. She threw her mind at Jacob, driving into his consciousness, knowing he would have a practically unbreakable mental block, but maybe she could get back to that place she had been pulled to once before, so she could talk to Joseph. 'Joseph, please stop.'

[Thugren]

for a single second, you can see the boy as he is. Scared, alone. Isolated. But a second later he looks up as if acknowleging you.

 

 

a sickening serise of pops can be heard as he exerts force over the older psionic, but within moments, his force fades, and you drop to the ground.

 

the boy looks at his grandfather for a long moment, mumbles something and xcollapses into the grass unconcious

[Lafayra Rue]

Sorianna scrambles up, almost flying to the boy, dropping to the ground beside him. "Boys?!" She carefully lifted Jacob and rested him on her lap, resting one hand on his throat to feel his pulse and using her other hand to open his eyelid to check his eye for damage. "It's alright boys, just breathe, I'm right here."

[Thugren]

His pulse is weak and one of his eyes has had an odd coloring now.

One of the irises are dark red, and the other is a calm blue like his father.

Jacob curls into your arms as Augustus stands, feeling all his bones snap and pop into place.

" cute...... Next time I'll kill him for that."

The elder psionic growls, vanishing .


Morgan runs to yor side and puts her hand on Jacobs chest, beginning her healing .

" we have to reign this boy in.."

[Lafayra Rue]

A low, protective sound issued deep from her throat when she heard Augustus's words but her retort was made to her sister. "Reign him in? That's all you've ever done to this poor boy. All he's known after what was done to him is that box that keeps him locked up in Jacob. Have any of you actually tried to talk to him? He's a child for gods sake, did you ever consider that? I saw him. He's alone, all the time, and he probably feels that even his own brother shuts him out." Sorianna pulled Jacob away from Morgana, picking him up carefully, and carrying him into the gas station.

 

She laid him down on some tarp in one of the back rooms and carefully eased into his blood to work on healing him.

[Thugren]

you hear a low rumble of motors and grinding gears as aqshram stands behind you.

 

"The poor boy........He mimics his fathers life... But time is so much crueler to him...This boy hd a childhood."

 

Ashram touches Jacobs face tenderly.

 

"Two powerful beings in one body.....If this keeps up they will riop this flesh apart trying to establish dominance."

[Lafayra Rue]

Sorianna kept up a soft flow of healing, a small smile coming to the corners of her mouth as she heard Ashram approach. She noted the tenderness in the golems voice as he spoke.


"They say to mimic is to idolize and I have no doubt that the boys love their father....but..." She let the thought trail off. "They shouldn't have to try to dominate each other. Its cruel to make them fight over a body." Now she frowned.


"How much more can they take Ashram?"

[Thugren]

Ashram makes a serise of beeps and clicks and sighs

 

"If they keep this up, Josephs psionic might will actually rip the boy in t wo.....Killing them both."

[Lafayra Rue]

"I feared as much." She was quiet for a long time. "Watch him please Ashram, we'll have to move out soon." Sorianna stood and went back outside. She saw her sister first and gave her an abashed smiled. "I apologize, that was uncalled for and rude. I will wake him soon, but I wanted a head count and an idea of where we are going and how we'll get there."


She hadn't immediately seen Augustus so maybe he had left.

[Thugren]

You find Moira leaning against the wall, watching Augustus's back as he leaves.

" that bastard.... That heartless bastard.."

[Lafayra Rue]

Sorianna hesitates with her gaze on Moira. Her words invited a question but she had barely spoken to her before and she had basically kidnapped her grandson not long ago, but it also replayed the vision she had seen in Augustus's blood. "How...how long...has he been like that?"

[Thugren]

"been like what girl."

 

Moria asks, turning to you and folding her arms again.

 

"A thoughtless bastard? He was like that in munich.......Its safe to say hes always been like htis."

[Lafayra Rue]

"I-I meant cold...and calculating. Where did his heart go? Or...was he always like that?" She felt awkward asking this, maybe it wasn't any of her business, but Augustus was Caliphas's father and maybe it would shed some light on why he acted like he did.