A Question of Will (The Aliomenti Saga - Book 1) by Albrinck Alex

Author:Albrinck, Alex [Albrinck, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2012-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

XVI

Energy

Will had settled into a routine that had become his new normal, reflective of the incredible ability of human beings to adapt to new circumstances.

A few weeks earlier, his life revolved around his wife and son, his philanthropic work, and his businesses, in that order. Today, he could no longer spend time on any of them, outside the happy memories he had to dig to find. More frequent were the flashbacks of the last minutes before his rescue. Michael Baker’s look of horror at seeing the two dead guards. The killer standing in his house, the blood dripping from the sword the man carried. The explosion and fire that destroyed his house. The maniacal frenzy of anger and rage in the faces of the three Hunters as they kicked and beat him, as Athos slit his cheeks to match the scar on the Hunter’s face, of Aramis’ look of righteous fury as the man tried to stab him to death along with his fellow Hunters.

What truly told him that his life was different was waking up each day in that empty white room, where he’d roll to his side and not see Hope’s sleeping form beside him. There was no daily walk down the hall to see Josh and his faithful companion, Smokey, wondering and ever hopeful that that day would be the one the boy would finally speak. That day would never come now, and he’d go to his grave having never heard his son’s voice or laughter.

But his new normal now dominated his thoughts, and he kept pushing the flashbacks deep into his mind for later, a brief moment when their recollection would serve as a form of penance and self-condemnation. At the moment, he was focused, at Adam’s direction, on making sure that he remained floating three feet off the ground, levitating himself with his own Energy. The marvel of human adaptability was that this seeming wizardry was as normal to him now as driving a car had been then.

Progress had been steady. Adam worked with him for a few hours at a time, mostly teaching him how to sense and grow his Energy levels. Will, with nothing else to do, spent every waking moment before and after his sessions figuring things out for himself.

He had also finally left the room he’d been living in, walking through the walls like the others did. Adam noted he was not a prisoner and never had been, and the other buildings in the community were built with a similar technology; he was free to attempt to enter any he liked. The buildings were, in essence, intelligent; if he wasn’t permitted in a building, he wouldn’t be able to get in.

Will tried to think of the various skills he’d heard mentioned. He mastered empathy fairly quickly, able to read emotions with startling accuracy, and telepathy shortly after. His education included ethics around the use of his skills; deep empathic or telepathic work was considered rude to perform without permission. He recalled

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