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picking up surface thoughts and hearing voices. Then my dad took me to see Star Wars in the theater. And I wasn’t afraid anymore. I was a Jedi !
    “I begged my dad to take me to see it again and again. On the third time, there was an old man in a wheelchair seated in the aisle next to us. In the middle of the movie, my dad got up to go use the restroom. That was when the old man leaned over and said ‘I can train you in the Force’ and he lifted a piece of popcorn out of my bucket with his mind.”
    “So that is how you met your Yoda?”
    “Tomas had been aware of me for months and was trying to determine how best to make contact. It is very difficult for psions, you know, because so many of us do spontaneously develop our powers out of nothing. We don’t have the family ties that can help us understand what is happening. I was a very scared little boy. He reached out and helped me. Which brings us to Houston.”
    “There is something else troubling you?”
    “It took him three hours to learn the ritual.”
    “Well, he is new to the craft.”
    “No, no. Nancy...er..Madame Warlock. That is a ritual that usually takes weeks to master. No matter how powerful his mother’s imprinting on him, it is highly unusual for a psion to just absorb knowledge like that. That is the sort of speed you normally find with hereditary magic.”
    “His father wasn’t a witch.”
    “Are we sure who his father is?”
    “You think Vivika was having an affair or something?”
    “She hated her husband. She only tolerated him I assume because she wanted a child. I wouldn’t think adultery would be so outlandish a sin considering who we are talking about.”
    “I think at this point, even if his father was a witch, that the last thing Houston needs is more family drama.”
    “I don’t disagree. But it is possible his father never knew about him. And it might do the young man some good to at least have the option to find out, should he decide to pursue it. Or at the very least, to not spend the rest of his life thinking both of his parents were murderers. And regardless, when this is over, I would like your permission to take a more active interest in Houston’s training. With his natural talents and your training, he could make a fine Justicar one day. And I think that might suit him. He has a deep desire to do good. I would like to make sure that he gets that chance if he wishes it.”
    “Thank you, Lord Advocate. I think when all of this is over, that would be a wonderful idea.”
     
     
    October 6 th ,
     
    Mother’s aura flares bright red as she reads Brynwolf’s letter. By the end of the letter, she’s cloaked in a shroud of Hellfire. I am so glad she’s still in the astral plane. I don’t want to have to replace the carpet. “ Give me thirty minutes to call up a few mariliths and I end this right now. ”
    “Mother!” I point at the ceiling. Houston is conversing with his mother to keep her from prying while I speak with mine.
    “It isn’t a problem, Nancy. They owe me favors.”
    “Mother!”
    “Okay! All right. We do this your way. I’m going to go talk to your grandmother. After I figure out how to restrain her. She’s where you get your temper from.”
    “And she always insisted I got it from you.”
    Mother looks up at the ceiling and scowls. “ Sahmain can’t come fast enough.” She vanishes off to go find Nanna.
    I go into the kitchen to make a pot of coffee. I hear Houston coming down the stairs and set up a cup for him. I can feel Vivika’s presence lingering across the Veil. She’s attempting to ward herself, and if I was not already so on edge I might not have realized she was still listening. “How is you mother holding up?” I ask as he comes into the kitchen.
    “As good as can be expected.”
    I hand him the cup. “How are you holding up?”
    “I’ll be glad when this is over.”
    “So what did you two talk about?”
    “Mom wanted to know how things are going with me and Risha. She