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considered her to be something of a
friend. Seeing Ray perching on a huge limb nearby made Kiyan giggle
quietly. The sight of a large flying horse with elephant trunks and
claws holding onto a tree was comical. A sense of embarrassment and
a glimmer later and Ray had taken a form Kiyan had never seen him
in. A flying squirrel was scampering over the tree and was soon
perched on Kiyan’s shoulder.
    “Sorry for laughing at you.” Whispered an apologetic
Kiyan. “Besides I did not know you could do that.”
    “ You rarely climb trees to this height besides
Addy would catch you should you fall.” Ray was confident in his
response.
    Hearing a soft voice in his mind, Kiyan turned in
surprise to Addy. “You are one of Fredric’s best friends. I
would protect you and Jeremy second to Fredric. Ray saved Fredric
today because I didn’t know that humans could drown.” There was
an undertone of guilt in the last admission.
    Ray Interjected then. “When she bonded she learned
for the first time how fragile your race was. She knows now how to
care for Fred.”
    Fredric, what an old fashioned name probably from
the old world , thought Kiyan.
    Again Kiyan felt Addy speaking. “ I sprouted more
than three hundred years ago. All that time I never had any desire
to bond, I lived in the woods and was by myself. But last week I
sensed Fredrick and couldn’t resist. I can’t explain it but he is
unique, special in a way. He feels the life in the space around him
even at this early age. He doesn't know it yet but he will be what
you call a life mage or what my kind calls a grower.”
    “He...... he isn't mad at me for not telling about
being telepathic is he?” A hesitant Kiyan finally mustered the
courage to ask.
    A soft musical giggle sounded in Kiyan’s head. “You are the reader, you tell me Addy laughed obviously with
a mischievous streak of her own. “But no he isn’t mad, just
happy for you. The fact you did not read him to try and find out
means his trust is well founded. Kiyan felt Addy observing him.
“ You are more sensitive than most are, I cannot communicate with
many of your race like I can with you.”
    Finally feeling satisfied Kiyan let himself revel in
the silence of the night, bathed in the light from the nebula and
the glowing woods he closed his eyes. Reaching out with his mind he
heard incoherent whispers of a dream from one of the boys,
reflecting that, he let his other barriers down and listened to the
soft symphony of a thousand night creatures in an attempt to find a
cadence or a rhythm to the chaos. He felt the measured pulse of the
suns and following that. He felt something different. It was not
emotion or thought that he felt. He let it materialize in his
mind’s eye until he saw the forest in a new light. It seemed to
glow with energy, every insect and animal glowing with a brighter,
more agitated light than the trees and vines that shone with a
steady powerful glow in varying shades of the rainbow.
    Pulling his mind in after watching the symphony of
lights for a few minutes he looked around the camp. The camp glowed
the same color as Addy and bands of energy passing between Addy and
Fred. Strangely there were filaments of energy extending from Fred
to the surrounding area. Jeremy looked peaceful in a small sea of
blue and Ray? Ray was emanating disturbed waves of the same energy
that Kiyan could see strands of reaching from himself. Pulling back
on the energy closed Kiyan’s mind’s eye but before the vision faded
he saw a bright light approach. Recognizing the same peace and calm
from the dreams, he knew who it was. More questions but it was too
late, a feeling of pride from Ray or Kendra and it was gone.
Feeling himself slipping into a deep dreamless sleep he felt Ray
moving him and then settling down in the hammock with him in his
squirrel form before everything faded.
     
     

Chapter Three: Awakening
     
    Joshua sat in his home with his wife, thinking about
a multitude of things. He was a