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    Jay was impressed.  Donny may not be a reader, but he was brilliant at reading people in other ways.  Jay knew they had come to test him.  After all, Captain Williams had just asked him what he was thinking and was now waiting for an answer.  He had not realized the two others were readers though.  If they were readers, that would explain why he was seeing everyone’s thoughts in sets of three; once from their own heads, and once from each of those two who were reading them.  Since he had already identified which pictures belonged to his parents, and Donny was making it easy to identify his, that left the black ones as Captain Williams.  But why were they black?  Maybe if he calmed himself down, and tried to clear all the other pictures from his head... if he focused on just one of those pictures…
    “It’s a trick; you are blocking me from reading your thoughts.”
    Captain Williams smiled.  “True, with the right techniques, it is possible to block a reader’s penetration, and I have just demonstrated such a technique to block yours, showing you nothing but a black screen.”
    “You didn’t block mine.”
    “But you said I was blocking you from reading my thoughts.  There is no need to get defensive over it, you are still new to this…”
    “No really, I wasn’t telling you that you were blocking me, your thoughts said that it was a trick, and that you were blocking me from reading your thoughts.  I was just repeating what I saw from your head.”
    Captain Williams was not nervous, he knew the boy’s brother was just outside listening in, sending Jay some sort of mental message.  Captain Williams may not be a reader, but he has other ways of finding out what is going on.  While little Donny was sending info to Jay, his readers have been sending him a message through a small device in his pocket.  They told him the brother was spying, sending a message to Jay, and asked if they should apprehend him.  Captain Williams had already told them to leave him for now.  Somehow the younger one realized he would be blocking Jay’s attempts, and Jay read that message from Donny, thinking it was his own thoughts.  “You were not reading my thoughts.”
    “Yes I was.  And just then, you were thinking about my brother being outside, listening in.”
    Captain Williams was surprised to hear this last statement, although he did not let it show.  He felt certain this boy could not really be reading his thoughts.  Although he was not putting a large amount of effort into his blocks, he should still be able to keep a new reader at bay without any effort at all.  Still, he did not like that this kid was making such lucky guesses.
    “Do you want me to stop reading your thoughts sir?”
    “If I wanted you to stop I would make it so you had to.”  To prove his point, Captain Williams changed his technique to make sure nobody could read his thoughts.  In the odd case that this kid could break through his weaker defenses, he would not let him keep the upper hand.  He also sent a message to his readers for one of them to apprehend the brother. 
    “I’m sorry sir, I did not mean to sound disrespectful.  And you have nothing to worry about, I have always wanted to be a hero, and I would rather die than fight for the Villains.  I am on your side, sir.”
    “If you really want to be a hero, I’m going to need to test you again.  Here’s a new set of flashcards, with new images.  I will not block these thoughts.  Are you ready to begin?”

CHAPTER 3
     
    DONNY WAS SURPRISED to see one of the readers turn the corner of the house suddenly, appearing in an instant right next to the window that Donny had told Jay he was under.  Good thing he was not actually there.  He felt bad lying to his brother, but he knew the readers would come for him, and he had to say something to throw them off.  He had expected them much sooner, but Donny figured they must have gotten held up for some reason.  He