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ECHOES OF THE PAST I'M NOT HELPING YOU
"I'm already changing it," I replied. "My counseling practice works with people your system and their system both failed. I'm developing alternative training models for enhanced children that prioritize mental health alongside tactical capability. I'm proving that baseline humans can meaningfully contribute to supernatural community without possessing abilities themselves." I could see Damian watching me from his position, seeing me deploy psychological expertise and counseling skills with more precision than his tactical capabilities could provide. This was my domain- understanding people, navigating emotional complexity, finding common ground beneath ideological differences. "Let me help reform how enhanced children are raised," I offered. "Not Consilient philosophy, not Balance training, but something new. Something that provides community without conscription, support without manipulation, belonging without surrender of autonomy." Elena studied me intently. "Why would you
ECHOES OF THE PAST BASELINE COURAGE
"I'm going in alone," I announced, checking the tactical display Marcus had pulled up on his tablet. "Absolutely not," Marcus replied immediately. "You have no abilities, no protection, no way to defend yourself if this goes wrong." "Exactly," I said. "Which means I'm not a threat. Just a mother looking for her husband. Just a baseline human who Elena thinks is inadequate. Walking in powerless is the only leverage I have." "That's not leverage, that's suicide." "It's psychology," I corrected. "Elena wants to prove baseline parents can't adequately raise enhanced children. Me walking into her safehouse, alone and vulnerable, either validates her position or forces her to confront that courage exists independent of abilities." Marcus stared at me like I'd lost my mind. "You're gambling your life on whether a Consilient operative will appreciate your courage?" "I'm gambling on her being pragmatic rather than ideological. On her wanting to rebuild Consilient philosophy, not ju
ECHOES OF THE PAST DAMIAN'S RESTRAINTS
"Was it? Or is the only difference that you approved of recruitment then but oppose it now? We're not stealing children, Commander Cole. We're reclaiming them from situations where their abilities will be suppressed, misunderstood, or inadequately developed." "By baseline parents," Damian said, understanding the ideological foundation. "You think Aria can't properly raise Elara because she's no longer enhanced." "Not just your wife. Any baseline parent attempting to raise supernatural child. How can they teach control they've never experienced? Provide guidance for abilities they can't perceive? Protect children from threats they can't detect?" "Through love. Through commitment. Through partnership with enhanced support systems." "Through inadequacy disguised as determination," Elena countered. "Your daughter struggles in preschool. Becomes overwhelmed by empathic input her mother can't sense or manage. Wakes from nightmares about consciousness networks her baseline parent can't
ECHOES OF THE PAST WHEN PROTECTION BECOMES PRISON
I woke to empty bed and immediate wrong. The wrong wasn't supernatural, couldn't sense consciousness patterns or detect enhanced awareness. It was purely human intuition honed through years of surviving impossible situations: something was very, very wrong. Damian's side of the bed was cold. Not recently vacated, but hours empty. Again. A note sat on his pillow, written in his precise handwriting: "Early Guardian meeting. Didn't want to wake you. Love you." The note felt like lie. I checked my phone. No missed calls, no texts, no explanation beyond the carefully neutral note. The Guardian protection detail was still outside, their presence steady and unremarkable. Nothing to indicate crisis. But instinct screamed otherwise. I called Veena directly, not caring that it was barely 6 AM. "Aria?" She answered immediately, alert despite early hour. "Is everything okay?" "Is Damian on Guardian assignment?" I asked without preamble. Silence brief but telling. "Not that I'm aware o
ECHOES OF THE PAST PLEASE LET HIM SURVIVE
"Close," Elara said, and the certainty in her voice was chilling. "Getting closer. Like it's looking for me specifically." I wanted to reassure her it was just nightmare, just imagination. But Elara's empathic abilities had proven accurate before. If she sensed consciousness network seeking her, it probably existed. "We're keeping you very safe," I said instead. "Daddy and the Guardians are making sure nothing bad happens." "I know," Elara replied. "But the network isn't bad. It's just... different. And very, very lonely." --- That evening, Elara woke screaming. I reached her room first, finding her tangled in sheets, small body shaking with fear and empathic overwhelm. "The network!" she sobbed. "It's so loud, Mommy. So many voices all wanting, wanting, wanting...." Damian arrived seconds later, his enhanced perception engaging immediately to assess what Elara was sensing. His expression went cold in the way that meant tactical threat assessment had identified serious danger
ECHOES OF THE PAST SECRETS AND LIES
The Guardian protection detail had transformed our home into a security fortress overnight. Cameras monitored every angle, consciousness sensors tracked supernatural activity within a three-block radius, and two enhanced operatives rotated shifts in an unmarked vehicle across the street. It should have made me feel safer. Instead, it felt like admission that ordinary life had been illusion all along. "Coffee?" I offered Damian the next morning, finding him once again at the kitchen table, laptop open, absorbed in something he minimized quickly when I approached. "Thanks," he said, accepting the mug without meeting my eyes. The evasiveness was back worse than yesterday. Whatever he was working on, he'd decided I didn't need to know about it. "Guardian briefing this morning?" I asked, keeping my tone neutral. "Among other things," he replied vaguely. "Veena wants updated threat assessment. Intelligence is still coming in about Project Reclamation." "Anything I should know?" "N
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