A Flight of Ravens by John Conroe

Author:John Conroe [Conroe, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-16T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

I must have stared for a moment too long as she suddenly shifted in her seat. “Kassa, I think you are seriously overestimating what my particular Talent is about. I can locate objects and people. That’s it.”

She tapped the side of her head. “I am gifted with a memory for things I hear that is almost perfect… better, in fact, than Trell’s trained bardic memory. I can literally hear my grandfather’s voice talking about Finders. He was much impressed with that particular ability.”

“And what exactly was he impressed about?”

“Kassa, my darling, one of the most interesting Talents is the ability to Find,” she intoned in an eerie impression of a man’s voice. “As you have no doubt memorized by now, it is an offshoot of Knowing, but it is a very particular one. You see, dear girl, a Finder must establish a connection from what they are Finding to either a person or a related object. A Knower reads the vibrations of an object, but a Finder both reads the vibrations and tracks them across distance and even, get this, across time.”

“What? What did he mean by time?”

She reached up and touched one of her gold earrings. “If I misplace this, you could locate it, without ever having seen it before, simply because I have worn it and it is therefore imprinted with vibrational energy that is particular to me. Or if I lost it and, say, Trell brought you the surviving twin, you could track it based upon the similarity between them.”

“Yes, that’s pretty accurate, but it doesn’t answer my question of what your father meant.”

“I’m getting there,” she said with a smile, clearly enjoying her role as teacher. I could see why Trell was smitten. She was not only very attractive, but she was very sharp, highly observant, and clearly brave. “Tell me, Captain: Did your sister or mother ever ask you to find some valued trinket that had been lost for a considerable amount of time? Say, a childhood toy or keepsake that had been misplaced and forgotten years ago?”

“Yes,” I said, remembering doing just that for both Jolanna and Brona.

“I’ll tell you something you might not know, in the interest of our agreement for me to pipe up. People’s vibrational energy changes as they age. Your sister’s energy as a child was different from what it is now as a grown woman. Sometimes it varies just a little, sometimes a great deal, yet I would hazard that it wouldn’t matter to your gift. You could still track the traces of childhood Jolanna DelaCrotia despite her now being adult Lady Jolanna Jens. That is what Father meant.”

“Isn’t that just because the energies are still so similar?” I asked. “Not really across time at all, is it?”

“From my father’s perspective, what you do is quite different from what I do or your… the crown princess’s Reader does. We read the mental energy of the individual and translate that in our heads to understand thoughts or intentions. You,

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