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Aura was shocked, “Why did you do that?”
Randr smiled, “Check your memory of the timeline.”
She closed her eyes and ran through the images and the bright flash that encouraged the only Tival champion to force his way into the Tival Volunteers was indeed caused by two unknown folk who were never seen again.
“Wow. This is tricky stuff. I don’t know if I am going to get the hang of it.”
He smiled. “You will. We have appeared at a million points in history, holding up a ticket, knocking a child from the path of a carriage, directing a scanner to a so-called empty point in space that finds a floating shuttle or life-pod.”
“That is a heady responsibility.”
“It is not ours, it is the Orb. We are simply its hands and feet.” He smiled.
She blinked and her stomach growled. “I am going to get some lunch. Coming?”
He shook his head, but there was a sly look in his eyes. “No, you go ahead.”
Shrugging, she powered up and opened the doorway to the refectory. A second after she came through, Randr was at her side.
“I thought you weren’t coming.”
He shook his head. “I didn’t. We are tied together. Where you go, I go and vice versa. I just wanted to test it out and it really worked.”
She winced. “A good thing you weren’t using the lav then. I am assuming this only happens when we are using the gateways.”
He shrugged. “I don’t know. I have never seen a bonded couple like us before.”
She wandered to the food selections and then found a table. To her surprise, Tavik sat next to her and inquired as to her day.
“It has been fine, Tavik. Here is your power back.” She exhaled and released his ability to use his power to move in time and space.
He blinked and smiled. It was a shy smile. “How did you come upon such control of your abilities so early?”
Randr sat across from her and nodded for her to answer.
Aura ate a few bites and then explained, “I have been trained to compartmentalize my mind. This apparently was very attractive to the Orb and it moved more of its consciousness into me than is normal. This gave me the means to control the influx of power and in that manner, yours.”
He stared at her, eyes wide. “Where did you get that training?”
“From the Alliance. I was a Terran Volunteer and I received training to welcome other minds into my mind at the Citadel. It took two years and was very painful, but I managed it.”
Tavik blinked. “You had to study?”
“Of course. No thing achieved is valued unless there is work involved to acquire and master it. If you spent more time working on how to manage your new power and less on how to gain mastery without working at it, you would be a much better Nameless and you might even be tapped for a witnessing moment.”
Tavik smiled, “You think so?”
“When you prove that you have an interest in time as a whole and not simply your place in it, yes. We are all here because we have the potential to be so much more than we were born to. Prove it and then gain the respect of your peers. Start by asking your tutor every question you are too embarrassed to ask. There is no place for embarrassment here, many of the moments that we witness are consummations that begin lines of dynasties reaching from thousands of years ago to modern times.”
A polite smattering of applause broke out from the nearby tables and faces that had once looked at her with fear now grinned at her grasp of the Nameless purpose.
Randr smiled at her and reached out to take her hand. “I believe that you have captured the heart of our existence, my love. We live not because we are too great to die but because our lives could be more useful than our deaths.”
Aura smiled at her bondmate and squeezed his hand with hers. “I never thought that getting stabbed in a museum would be the best thing that happened to me, but here I am and I couldn’t be more pleased with how things have turned out.”
* * * *
Tavik watched them look
Aura was shocked, “Why did you do that?”
Randr smiled, “Check your memory of the timeline.”
She closed her eyes and ran through the images and the bright flash that encouraged the only Tival champion to force his way into the Tival Volunteers was indeed caused by two unknown folk who were never seen again.
“Wow. This is tricky stuff. I don’t know if I am going to get the hang of it.”
He smiled. “You will. We have appeared at a million points in history, holding up a ticket, knocking a child from the path of a carriage, directing a scanner to a so-called empty point in space that finds a floating shuttle or life-pod.”
“That is a heady responsibility.”
“It is not ours, it is the Orb. We are simply its hands and feet.” He smiled.
She blinked and her stomach growled. “I am going to get some lunch. Coming?”
He shook his head, but there was a sly look in his eyes. “No, you go ahead.”
Shrugging, she powered up and opened the doorway to the refectory. A second after she came through, Randr was at her side.
“I thought you weren’t coming.”
He shook his head. “I didn’t. We are tied together. Where you go, I go and vice versa. I just wanted to test it out and it really worked.”
She winced. “A good thing you weren’t using the lav then. I am assuming this only happens when we are using the gateways.”
He shrugged. “I don’t know. I have never seen a bonded couple like us before.”
She wandered to the food selections and then found a table. To her surprise, Tavik sat next to her and inquired as to her day.
“It has been fine, Tavik. Here is your power back.” She exhaled and released his ability to use his power to move in time and space.
He blinked and smiled. It was a shy smile. “How did you come upon such control of your abilities so early?”
Randr sat across from her and nodded for her to answer.
Aura ate a few bites and then explained, “I have been trained to compartmentalize my mind. This apparently was very attractive to the Orb and it moved more of its consciousness into me than is normal. This gave me the means to control the influx of power and in that manner, yours.”
He stared at her, eyes wide. “Where did you get that training?”
“From the Alliance. I was a Terran Volunteer and I received training to welcome other minds into my mind at the Citadel. It took two years and was very painful, but I managed it.”
Tavik blinked. “You had to study?”
“Of course. No thing achieved is valued unless there is work involved to acquire and master it. If you spent more time working on how to manage your new power and less on how to gain mastery without working at it, you would be a much better Nameless and you might even be tapped for a witnessing moment.”
Tavik smiled, “You think so?”
“When you prove that you have an interest in time as a whole and not simply your place in it, yes. We are all here because we have the potential to be so much more than we were born to. Prove it and then gain the respect of your peers. Start by asking your tutor every question you are too embarrassed to ask. There is no place for embarrassment here, many of the moments that we witness are consummations that begin lines of dynasties reaching from thousands of years ago to modern times.”
A polite smattering of applause broke out from the nearby tables and faces that had once looked at her with fear now grinned at her grasp of the Nameless purpose.
Randr smiled at her and reached out to take her hand. “I believe that you have captured the heart of our existence, my love. We live not because we are too great to die but because our lives could be more useful than our deaths.”
Aura smiled at her bondmate and squeezed his hand with hers. “I never thought that getting stabbed in a museum would be the best thing that happened to me, but here I am and I couldn’t be more pleased with how things have turned out.”
* * * *
Tavik watched them look
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