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1
The primary efforts are to get the two remaining men for Dede and Gena. Almost everything is on hold except for the Day Care Facility and the ongoing construction and remodeling of the new facilities for Harem One. The pregnant are starting to show and all has to be ready. Several more have gotten impregnated with the heated sexual passions of late. Soon all the women will be with child.
Allocating tasks on a broader and longer term basis is discussed and considered by all. Of course classes continue and Viktor is enrolled for his education. Part time at first to allow him time for his construction management of the two projects. He jumps into his studies like a man possessed. His 'talent' is fast revealing itself. Seems he has a unique form of clairvoyance. Not mind reading in the 'normal' sense but it is 'physical' in that objects, bodies and the like become transparent to him. Not exactly like X-ray vision but in his mind he is aware of the internal structure and elements of things. He does 'sense' things from people but not to the extent or quite like Brenda, Vera or William.
Others are beginning to be aware of enhanced abilities. At first it is all very subtitle and the individual uses it like it's normal or unconsciously like they always had it. But soon this latent state becomes clearer or slightly stronger than ever before, more obviously not normal.
Brenda calls Walter and asks to meet him. He has her up later that day to his office.
"Walter, I think things with The Chosen are much more than what you had originally anticipated. Vera, William and myself are now easily reading each others minds and we can as a trio look into someone else mind and know together what is going on. The new guy Viktor has a Physical version being able to 'see' into physical entities. He has a milder version of what I have as well. It gets stronger with time, use and exposure to each other. Buy-the-way, stay in tomorrow and increase the armed guards with heavier arms in the lobby and around the building. There will be an attack around noon. We collectively came to this conclusion yesterday."
"So you can now sense things in advance without their presence?"
"Yes. We have been becoming aware of this for awhile and have been using it to recruit. It makes for much more precise analysis and in a few cases the individual, like William, knew. So did Viktor. I was worried about all the work that was going to be required to recruit the other Harems but I think it will be much easier as we go. Especially after the Second Harem. Another thing that is happening to me as my abilities increase. I'm taking on another expansion .. the only way I can describe it .. visions of the future ... future events and actions. These are not wishful thinking or dreams."
"Am I becoming obsolete?"
"I don't know what any of this totally means right now but I felt compelled to let you know what is going on. I "know" you did not anticipate these things happening to us. For instance we are becoming aware of the secret and unwritten history of SD&R. Things I know you don't want to be known. I'm not threatening you or trying to bribe you but to let you know there are no secrets around us now. I'm sure we will soon know your competition as well. We are expanding from the immediate and familiar to the broader and unknown."
"Well I suppose you would certainly know if someone were bent on doing you guys in?"
"In an instant. Since you give us anything we ask for and then some there is no reason to fear for sure. In fact the less loving and more angry someone or group is the stronger we sense them. We cannot be that way I don't think. We just step out of the way."
"So you don't fear?"
"I feel that some talents are arising from within the group that will develop protection techniques. I'm not quite sure what they will be like yet."
"Keep me informed of things. It sounds like things are moving along much more rapidly now. You know I'm always available to you and I suppose I should be more so as time goes on. Your pregnancy is starting to show. How are the others?"
"I think all of us will be pregnant soon. There is only Dede and Gena to get men for and most of the other women have been inseminated."
"I'll see you after tomorrow's event."
Brenda returns to The facility and it was like a quiet cacophony of whispering that she had gotten use to but only realizes when she has been away for awhile and returns to the group. During dinner Brenda brings up the subject all know exists.
"We need to think of and work on ways to subdue the background noises in our heads. I think it is only going to get worse. I'm not sure how we can do this but lets think of any ways that might work."
"Brenda, I am not suppose to have the talent you do but I've been hearing things anyway. I thought I was going crazy at first until one day when you were talking and I heard the same thing in my head slightly different. I think it is you guys and no one else but still, it's not suppose to be?" Beatrice says.
"I think it is going to be possible for us to all talk without words weather we have the talent as I have or not. Maybe not with anyone else but I think we have an interconnectedness that is unique. We do have to learn to control it however. Let's all think on it and talk later."
Roger is becoming increasingly aware of Brenda in their love making, knowing more of what she wants in the moment as if asked but without words. He was thinking it was just familiarity but now he realizes they are 'talking' during love making. It's becoming so much more than it was as fantastic as it already was. It's almost like he can talk to their son. How the hell does he know it is a son? They chose not to have the doctor tell them! Roger is sure it is a boy though.
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The next day at noon a box van jumps the curb in front of the SD&R office building and starts to race across the plaza to the Lobby. A large thick steel panel pops out of the Plaza in front of the truck which crashes and explodes. A safeguard Walter had installed earlier. Everyone had been running away from the truck so no one was hurt except the driver of the truck and a couple of gunmen. Some gunmen had rushed toward the Lobby firing high powered automatic weapons. The ones not killed in the blast were taken down by SD&R marksmen.
One survived to be interrogated by SD&R before they released him to the FBI. Brenda, Vera and William stood outside the interrogation room looking at him through the one way mirror. They knew all that was in his head before he was released. It took them hours and then only the highlights, important names and facts. The gunman knew his mind was being ravaged and that they now know everything and all his associates. He screamed and hollered through the entire process.
They were not Arab terrorists. They told the SD&R security and Walter all that was in his head from birth in a very long debriefing. When he was turned over to the FBI they told them nothing of what had happened to him. The guy tried telling the FBI his mind had been read to their comic relief. He tells them everything and anything they wanted to know. He then lapsed into incoherent babbling, loosing all control of his body functions. He was institutionalized in a mental facility.
2
Several days later back on campus Brenda, Vera and Viktor found the two missing guys for Gena and Dede. Two buddies walking across campus to class. Both Physics Grad students and as geeky as they come.
They had no sooner spotted them than both Brenda and Vera had an overwhelming feeling of dread and fear, focused on a window a hundred yards away. The exact same feelings as from the gunman they had interrogated.
"Viktor!! I think someone is going to shoot us!" Pointing him to the window.
He no sooner saw the gunman than they heard a loud noise, a round being fired but strange and somewhat muffled sounding and then all was totally quiet. Everyone around them had ducked for cover. They stepped behind a column and watched for long moments.
