Ascendant- Nation of Nowhere by Richard Denoncourt
Author:Richard Denoncourt [Denoncourt, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Self Land Publishing
Published: 2019-02-14T22:00:00+00:00
Chapter 12
Over the following weeks, Michael followed the routine Blake established for him, doing menial labor where he was needed—mostly chopping wood and delivering supplies like drinking water—and meeting in Blake’s office to work with him and Dominic on relaxation techniques. The people of Gulch mostly avoided him, and his interactions with the other boys in the house on Silo Street were timid at best. He still couldn’t figure out why Ian hated him so much.
Peter and Eli were fans of Michael’s cooking, and he made sure to spoil them at breakfast in hopes that if his personality couldn’t win them over, his steak and eggs would. It wasn’t easy. He sensed the boys had little respect for him, probably because he was so eager to please.
They each had their own social lives. Eli and Ian sometimes took a few girls from town to go swimming in the pond beneath the power plant. Michael never tried to join, but he hoped for an invitation at some point. Peter often met up with Arielle to go for a ride on his motorcycle. More often than not, Peter and Arielle would fight. For some reason, Michael enjoyed hearing about it when Eli and Ian would gossip in the living room. Apparently, Peter had trouble keeping his hands off some of the other girls in town. But why would Arielle stay with such an idiot?
Michael couldn’t shrug off his mounting frustration. It bothered him that he wasn’t learning what he wanted during his sessions with Blake and Dominic; bothered him every time he saw Peter kiss Arielle in public; bothered him that Warren and Elkin felt it necessary to scowl at him whenever they saw him around town. He was ready to break out in some way. He just didn’t know how.
The answer came to him finally. He would start practicing telepathy himself, secretly and slowly at first. The power growing inside him was within reach—he could taste it.
His first target was a farmer he often saw at the Cold War Café. The man, Fred Wurthers, always came in alone in the afternoons to drink coffee and get away from his nagging wife, Sandra, whom everyone in town loathed because of her bossiness. And every day, like clockwork, he’d leave the café at the same time to head back home. Michael didn’t want to hurt the man—he just wanted to practice on someone who didn’t pose a threat to him.
He followed Fred across town toward his house, making sure to act like he was running some minor errand. Even brought a load of firewood with him to add to the disguise. During the walk, he tried envisioning the string in the man’s head like he had at the restaurant during the interrogation. The strings were easy to see, but difficult to manipulate. He tried several commands.
Pick up that bottle, he sent into Fred’s mind as the man passed a broken bottle on the side of the road.
Nothing.
Stand still, he directed in hopes the man would stop walking.
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