For my friends, certainly; for the fact Al and I still have each other, absolutely; but you know what I'm thankful for most of all? For having my sense of self again, being able to think and feel as myself, without the machine shredding everything I am in pieces and making me do its bidding ( Read more... )

You know, I've spent considerable time wishing all kind of things on those individuals from Department Sigma who handed me and the others over to the Shadows. A telepath can do horrible things, especially to another telepath, and I have a pretty dark imagination ( Read more... )

Both living as a normal and being on the run as a discovered telepath is in essence one lie after another. Pretending you’re something you’re not. Taking jobs you don’t like in order to survive. Never show when you very well know someone else is lying to you ( Read more... )

I already have all the romance I can take. However:

Wanted: One surgeon with the ability to remove sophisticated alien implants. Financial compensation difficult, but telepathic services in the offering. Shadows and their minions need not apply.

Not to be blindingly obvious but: being in someone else's power and having none of my own. Though it depends on the situation. I didn't truly feel helpless when imprisoned by the Corps and in the reeducation center until the very end, when Department Sigma transfered me and some of the others to their authority, and then sold us out to the Shadows ( Read more... )

Blame the lapsed historian in me, but I've got to go with some long-gone people I never met, and an entire race I hope never to meet. (No, not the Shadows, either ( Read more... )

Follow or Lead?Definitely not lead. I couldn't even organize a theatre play in school. The less said about that fiasco, the better. As for following, I suppose that depends on how you define "follow". Certainly not in the way Psi Corps demands it, unquestioning, and believing. But I could take orders from someone whose judgment I respect. Working ( Read more... )

"Nothing has changed," said her mother nervously. "Nothing that counts. Don't worry. We'll move to another city, and we won't tell anyone. Anyone at all. They'll never find out you're a… a ( Read more... )

"Love" would be my first choice, but I don't think that love is a value. Love just is. And you can't teach it ( Read more... )