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cried out for him to stop.”
“That’s not significant. We knew this boy was reading clearer than the rest, and if the other boy was letting him in, it would have been all the easier. Make note of the event, but it is not worth immediate attention. Is that all to report?”
“No sir. The boy, Jay, has also had a significant change of mannerisms. He is eating more than three times what we considered to be reasonable for him, and his movements are becoming quicker. He also has had no physical conditions since arriving here.”
“Correction, he has had no conditions since leaving home. There were no problems on the plane either.”
“Yes, sir. His movements are notably faster during Introduction to Defensive Tactics, or while in the common areas, and less notable during the other two classes, or while in the dormitory.”
“The connection is the Hermes.”
“Yes, sir, he seems to move quicker when around Hermes. We believe he is subconsciously emulating their movements.”
“Or consciously.”
“Sir? We would have seen if he were consciously making the effort.”
“You forget , he blocked his thoughts completely from two trained readers before any education at all. It’s possible you could have missed something in there. Don’t get over confident in your abilities, or under confident in his.”
“Sir, he has not made any attempts to block anything since arriving. On the contrary, he has been unusually open…”
“Dismissed, soldier.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Soldier. I wish to be made aware long before he starts getting dangerous. If his ability to read minds gets out of control, I want to be ready to handle it as necessary.”
“WHAT ARE THE three biggest limiting factors of a Hermes speed?”
“One, they think at the same speed as everyone else. Two, the environmental limitation on movement. Three…I can’t remember the third reason.”
“Come on Jay, this is the easy one. Three is gravity. No matter how fast they move, they still fall at the same speed as everyone and everything else.”
Jay and Michael had been studying for over three hours for their third week’s Introduction to Defensive Tactics test the next morning. Despite Michael’s laid back nature, Jay had quickly learned that he was a very bright kid. Even now, their studying was being conducted for the sake of Jay. Jay has been doing extremely well on the applied parts of his classes, but the information side was more difficult than he had expected. Introduction to Defensive Tactics has been particularly difficult for him, as the first three weeks have all been memorization of facts and figures.
Jay blamed his difficulty with the memorization on his constant trouble with his mental images. He found that he needs to coordinate his sleep perfectly with everyone else in order to get any sleep at all. If the others are still awake, he is kept up by their thoughts cycling through his head. If they are asleep, their dreams are constantly moving in and out, and those are worse because of how variant and sudden their appearances are.
He has also been distracted by certain patterns he has been noticing in the collage of thought images. He noticed that there were a few images that were constantly there, lingering in the corners of his mind, showing small versions of the entire collage. At first he figured someone was reading his own mind, and seeing the collage. He thought very little of this at first, as he was constantly around mind readers. After three weeks, however, it has begun to bother him. If these images are due to someone reading his mind, then that person must be reading his mind constantly, as the images were always there. Jay had wondered if his own thoughts were being mixed in with the collage; that maybe he was simply reading his own mind along with everyone else’s. He was not quite sure that was it, however, because when he concentrated
“That’s not significant. We knew this boy was reading clearer than the rest, and if the other boy was letting him in, it would have been all the easier. Make note of the event, but it is not worth immediate attention. Is that all to report?”
“No sir. The boy, Jay, has also had a significant change of mannerisms. He is eating more than three times what we considered to be reasonable for him, and his movements are becoming quicker. He also has had no physical conditions since arriving here.”
“Correction, he has had no conditions since leaving home. There were no problems on the plane either.”
“Yes, sir. His movements are notably faster during Introduction to Defensive Tactics, or while in the common areas, and less notable during the other two classes, or while in the dormitory.”
“The connection is the Hermes.”
“Yes, sir, he seems to move quicker when around Hermes. We believe he is subconsciously emulating their movements.”
“Or consciously.”
“Sir? We would have seen if he were consciously making the effort.”
“You forget , he blocked his thoughts completely from two trained readers before any education at all. It’s possible you could have missed something in there. Don’t get over confident in your abilities, or under confident in his.”
“Sir, he has not made any attempts to block anything since arriving. On the contrary, he has been unusually open…”
“Dismissed, soldier.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Soldier. I wish to be made aware long before he starts getting dangerous. If his ability to read minds gets out of control, I want to be ready to handle it as necessary.”
“WHAT ARE THE three biggest limiting factors of a Hermes speed?”
“One, they think at the same speed as everyone else. Two, the environmental limitation on movement. Three…I can’t remember the third reason.”
“Come on Jay, this is the easy one. Three is gravity. No matter how fast they move, they still fall at the same speed as everyone and everything else.”
Jay and Michael had been studying for over three hours for their third week’s Introduction to Defensive Tactics test the next morning. Despite Michael’s laid back nature, Jay had quickly learned that he was a very bright kid. Even now, their studying was being conducted for the sake of Jay. Jay has been doing extremely well on the applied parts of his classes, but the information side was more difficult than he had expected. Introduction to Defensive Tactics has been particularly difficult for him, as the first three weeks have all been memorization of facts and figures.
Jay blamed his difficulty with the memorization on his constant trouble with his mental images. He found that he needs to coordinate his sleep perfectly with everyone else in order to get any sleep at all. If the others are still awake, he is kept up by their thoughts cycling through his head. If they are asleep, their dreams are constantly moving in and out, and those are worse because of how variant and sudden their appearances are.
He has also been distracted by certain patterns he has been noticing in the collage of thought images. He noticed that there were a few images that were constantly there, lingering in the corners of his mind, showing small versions of the entire collage. At first he figured someone was reading his own mind, and seeing the collage. He thought very little of this at first, as he was constantly around mind readers. After three weeks, however, it has begun to bother him. If these images are due to someone reading his mind, then that person must be reading his mind constantly, as the images were always there. Jay had wondered if his own thoughts were being mixed in with the collage; that maybe he was simply reading his own mind along with everyone else’s. He was not quite sure that was it, however, because when he concentrated
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