Psy Touch by A.D. McLain

Author:A.D. McLain [McLain, A.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Creativia
Published: 2019-06-24T05:00:00+00:00

8

Lexy loaded a stack of papers into the scanner and sat down to wait for them to finish running through. She touched her band. Putting it back on was one of the hardest things she’d ever done, but as they drove closer to the city limits, she began to feel the pressure of uncontrolled Psy energy and knew she had no choice. Jared offered one of the disabled bands to her, but she still needed the active band. Even with it, her senses were heightened now. She was constantly distracted by people moving through the building, pulsing during their Psy session breaks, and the like. She tried to focus as she was taught the previous day, but it was difficult when all she wanted to do was leave this life behind and escape to the freedom of The Valley.

She took the papers from the output tray and saved the file on her computer, then saved another copy to her private flash drive. After checking for any other new files, she copied them over and ejected her USB. All these years she’d done this, she never knew what to do with the information. But something told her it needed to be saved, so she did it. Now she felt the time was finally right to do something. She still didn’t know what that something was, but that would come.

Lexy remained quiet and let Kara do the talking on the ride home. She spoke of Curtis, at the exclusion of all other topics. Lexy grinned. Kara hadn’t been angry that they were late to work today, which took her out of the running for her bonus Psy session. She didn’t even mention it or how Lexy had spent the entire night away from their apartment. All she talked about was the day she had with Curtis and how she couldn’t wait for the following weekend.

Lexy poured them both a glass of leftover birthday brandy and joined Kara on the couch.

“Do you ever wonder what life would be like if the bands were never invented?”

Kara paused her channel surfing and turned to face Lexy. “What do you mean?”

“I mean, what if everyone had learned to control their Psy energy without them. Sure, it would’ve taken some time, but then we wouldn’t be slaves to bands and crystals. We could just be who we are.”

“But Psy crime was too bad. They couldn’t not have done something about that.”

Lexy sighed and stood. She was tired of hearing that lie. It had cost her father his freedom. Ruined her family. Kept millions of people in slavery, year after year.

Kara stood and put a hand on her shoulder. Lexy felt the warmth of her glowing touch.

“Crime never went down after the bands. Criminals just found ways around them or went back to using their old methods. All the censorship and control didn’t change anything. Crime actually went up, because they were rooting out and arresting all the police officers who knew how to fight it.”

Kara took a step back, her hand still raised.

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