The Psionic Thief by Renol Dave

Author:Renol, Dave [Renol, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2013-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Carl: The Trustworthy One

“Is that coffee ready yet?” I asked while yawning.

“Should be close,” Mark replied. “You’re up early this morning… you couldn’t sleep either?”

“Barely a wink all night, what with all the new things my brain needed to process.”

“What do you think of our little psionic thief?”

“I think Linda was right that we need to tread carefully with her. You could see it in her eyes that she was going back and forth between fear and suspicion.”

“If she’s homeless and living on her own, then I guess that’s the kind of attitude that helps keep her safe.”

“Yeah, it can’t be easy… especially for a girl.”

“What do you think we should do about her? She is the thief Baker’s been looking for.”

“Screw Baker,” I said. “We agreed to help him up to a certain point, but I’m not about to turn her over to him. I think we should just try to convince her to stop and that’s it.”

“That might be easier said than done, but I know where you’re coming from. It might be different if she was stealing high dollar items, but all she took was cheap stuff.”

He topped up his mug before continuing. “The last time Baker talked to me, he said the thief wasn’t stealing as much, but had switched to some nasty tricks instead. Everything seems targeted toward the same guy… some dude named Tom Murphy.”

“What kind of tricks?”

“Little things that are simple, yet highly annoying. Like a skunk getting trapped inside his garage, a huge hornet’s nest that appeared over his front door overnight and a bunch of dead fish that somehow got into his AC vents.”

Hearing the list of what Claire used her psionics for was almost enough to make me snort coffee out my nose.

“That’s brilliant,” I said, wiping coffee off my chin. “Brilliant, inspired, and friggen hilarious to boot… I wonder what her beef with this guy is.”

“I’m not sure, but I’m glad she’s not pissed off at me. The pranks that can be done by a telekinetic could prove to be very nasty.”

“From what you just mentioned, they already are, but I know what you mean… nothing she did was actually very dangerous unless the guy’s allergic to bees.”

“So what do you think we should do about her?”

“I think we should give her a helping hand where she needs it. Train her psionics up a bit so she doesn’t do anything dangerous, and stay on her good side so we don’t find ourselves on the receiving end of her tricks.”

“She also has a few things she could teach us, like her expanded spectrum with telepathy.”

“I hear ya loud and clear on that one. Isn’t it strange how the range of psionic abilities grows at different rates, depending on what’s needed?”

“Everyone thinks a little bit different, and necessity is the mother of invention. If we had a driving need to speak telepathically with a non-psionic, I’m sure we would have made progress in that direction.”

“True, but that’s something we’ve been talking about for almost a year.

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