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seat.”
    â€œNo thank you,” Ciari said, voice cool, calm. “We won’t be staying long.”
    â€œJust long enough to congratulate me? You shouldn’t have. Really.”
    Nathan’s voice was dry, the smug superiority on his face difficult to ignore. As he was a Class I triad psion with telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation his to command, Ciari knew it was a superiority she had no hope in matching.
    Not often could a human brain handle the BPUs required for the control of two psi powers. One power was always a lower-Classed level when they existed together, and the main power was almost always telepathy. The more common dual psions that were a steady, if small, presence in their short history were telepaths and telekinetics on the low end of the Class scale, as well as telepaths and empaths. Telekinetics who were a Class V or higher and capable of teleportation were labeled dual psions as well.
    Triad psions were something altogether different. They should have been impossible, but the Serca family had proven that wrong. There were theories—there were always theories—on psi powers and the brain that housed them. It was possible for that combination to exist, the Sercas were living proof, but a Class I for all three powers? The brain shouldn’t be capable of holding that much power, but the Sercas could. They were the only psions ever to be labeled triads.
    Ciari supposed Nathan had a right to be smug.
    â€œYour family has illegally recorded the DNA of unregistered humans over the course of generations,” Ciari said. “The Genome Privacy Act you won out of the World Court today was granted retroactively and grandfathers in your family’s previous work. Why request legality now when the World Court was willing to continue turning a blind eye to your efforts, Nathan?”
    â€œMy timetable isn’t yours.” Nathan set aside his glass and leaned back in the shuttle seat. “I have the information I want. The government knows the Serca Syndicate works fast. I’ll have a list for them by the end of summer at the latest and they will have to accept it.”
    â€œThey will never accept unregistered humans.”
    â€œWho said anything about them being unregistered?” Nathan waved his hand disdainfully at her. “My family helped create the Registry in preparation for the fifth generation after the Border Wars. Do you really think I don’t control that information? I have no intention of giving up the power we’ve worked toward finally owning. I am in the position to make my own future. You are nothing more than the government’s bitch.”
    Keiko took an angry step forward, but Ciari gestured for her to back down. They would lose in a direct confrontation with Nathan, and a fight wasn’t the reason why Ciari had asked for this meeting.
    â€œThere isn’t enough time for me to give you who you need from the Stryker ranks,” Ciari said.
    â€œThat’s your problem, not mine.”
    Everyone knew there were rogue psions. The Sercas had never been owned by the government, and most of the Warhounds they took in never had either. Psion children, when discovered, were either retrieved by the Strykers or the Warhounds, whoever managed to track them down first, or they were terminated. Usually the Strykers came out ahead, but whereas the Warhounds’ numbers were equal to half the total psions in the Stryker ranks, they had more of the stronger psions. Some within the Warhound ranks, at least a sixth of their fighting force, were Strykers saved from government termination, but only those that the OIC of the Strykers Syndicate deemed worth saving and that the Serca family needed.
    The Silence Law was a twofold rule. A small group of top officers in the Strykers Syndicate helped keep the Serca family’s secrets, and those same few officers were the only Strykers who made sure that the willful, purposeful setup and escape