Challenge #298 - Power
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Koumyou looked at the boy without smiling. He feared the strength of his unwanted power over this glowering, blond child.
He would have liked to have denied any karmic connexion between them. For, if he had power over the boy, the boy inevitably had a power over him. And that was a weakness, an unpower, which the forces against him could exploit.
Nevertheless, Koumyou put his hand on the child’s thin shoulder and left it there, until the glowering faded into peace. The hand expressed willingness to heaven - an acceptance of the protector role which Koumyou knew would end violently.