Bonded Telepaths by Enid Titan

Author:Enid Titan [Titan, Enid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

26

Return of The Order

The Order annexed a continent on Sekhmet-delta. The attacks on Vortha started one day after our pod left. The capital wasn’t aware that the pod had been lost but the students’ presence confirmed the soldier’s worst suspicions — The Order planned to attack from the tundra.

The Order found a way to survive out here better than we had. They could still be out there — hunting them. Poppy’s stomach tightened when she thought about what they’d been through the last time she encountered The Order. Daphne had only been a teenage girl. They were more powerful now than they were then.

“They probably took the others captive,” Jason continued.

“We have to find them.”

“No. We need to keep going. The Order is probably looking for you, Penelope. Your mind, whatever it is you learned on Fengari, they want to study it. They believe you’re a dark telepath.”

“I’m not!”

Penelope’s blood coursed with rage. How could they think she was like Daphne or the others who hurt her? She’d never do what they’d done. She’d never kill people for her ends.

“Relax, Penelope. I know you’re not some sort of dark telepath. What matters is they think you are. We need to be careful.”

“Right.”

“Let’s go outside and check on the boys. I doubt you’ll get much sleep here.”

“When’s the last time you slept?”

Jason furrowed his brow.

“I can’t sleep when you’re injured. I can’t.”

Poppy’s heart softened to him. Jason could be sullen and surly when he saw fit, but moments of his deep caring burst through all the time. Penelope followed him outside of the tent and her stomach dropped. They were surrounded. Devorans. They weren’t dressed in typical Devoran white but in scarlet uniforms that covered every exposed inch of their skin. They held weapons up to Castor and Galene. Antigone, Eros, Janus, and Ajax lay immobile in the snow. Poppy wanted to scream but before she could, a soldier of The Order grabbed her by the wrist and teleported them away.

Poppy landed on her knees in a prison cell alone. The soldier who had teleported with her held his weapon up to her head.

“Penelope Darden, jazad. Welcome to your new home.”

Poppy trembled but didn’t bother saying a word to him. The Order wanted her, but Jason never mentioned how much they knew about her and her telepathy. She could read this soldier’s mind. He was old — older than anyone she knew on Earth but still young for Devoran standards. At 200 years old, he was tired of the trend against isolationism the planet took and horrified at what he saw.

He came to The Order searching for an end to the polluting aliens, the outsiders that threatened the peace and freedom he knew on Devor. Poppy saw his childhood home, she saw the first person he killed long before she was born and she saw the people he’d kidnapped who were still alive. Oz. Poseidon was here somewhere and this man knew where he was.

He backed out the cell slowly, his weapon trained on Poppy as he left.

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