7

 

“She is awake. You can see her now.”

“Thank you.” Ephraim replied softly hauling himself out of the bed carefully. He staggered slowly to the next room and collapsed with a sigh into the chair next to Kenna’s bed. She opened her eyes slightly squinting up at him, wriggling her nose slightly.

“What’s that face for miss?” he asked her with a small smile stroking her tangled hair from her face. “Do I smell that bad?”

“Yes.” She croaked trying to smile back.

“That’s my Kenna. I’m glad your ok now gets some rest. I want you in the best of health as soon as possible. Now don’t worry or get yourself worked up I’ll be back as soon as I have found out what is going on here. I love you.” He kissed her on the fore head and left limping. “Hey doctor?” he called seeing the blonde woman in the hall way. “I know I need some rest and I’m going back to bed but can you send some one to see me to explain things and for me to explain about us too?”

“Sure thing Ephraim and it Doctor Patience by the way.” She winked and swayed down the corridor away from him and into an office. That was a severe change in attitude he thought to himself but she wasn’t anything compared to Kenna.

He tumbled back into his bed and then waited with his eyes closed for someone to come and explain things to him. Letting his senses loose tentatively he listened for some ones thoughts. A few thoughts echoed through his mind clearly but although he feels others they seemed muffled and hidden in away. It almost scared him but his predatorily werewolf side wouldn’t let him be intimidated by this abnormal event. The door clicked open and Ephraim opened his eyes and focus his attention on the shorter man who entered the room dressed in jeans, a t-shirt with a tie printed on it and a white lab coat. He had big trusting eyes that sparkled with laughter; if Kenna had been there she would have seen a permanent tint of purple the colour of laughter in his aura.

“Good to meet your Ephraim.” He said with a giant grin shaking his hand vigorously. “Where do I start with what to tell you?” he asked rhetorically sitting in an armchair by the bed. “Well I am Jeffery Max, but you may call me Max I never liked my first name. I am in charge of the town you could call me the mayor I suppose but we don’t bother with titles here. But we do take violence very seriously and from what I hear you have seen your fair share of it. The people hear are all Touched but I think you know that already. My ability isn’t a very powerful one but it is very useful and why I am in charge; I can control peoples state of relaxation making them happy or tense, it also means I have a knack of knowing if they are telling the truth or not. People come here for sanctuary from a world that doesn’t understand them. Those with mental abilities rather physical ones find it less straining on their minds because they don’t work as well with other members of the Touched and those with physical abilities find them easier to control with the help of the mentals. Ha that sounds like we’re mad will we’re not! Now tell me about your ability.”

Ephraim stared at him surprised. This little man never seemed to stop for breath during that whole little speech but he now felt perfectly relaxed and willing to tell Max what he wanted to know.

“I am able to hear peoples thoughts but I can’t hear very many here. It’s disconcerting and outside the fence I couldn’t hear any at all them it was like I had overloaded and there was hundreds at once.” Needles of pain stabbed behind his eyes at the memory of it and he rubbed his face wearily.

“Now that I can explain. We had a rather bad incident here. Some of the people here come to us because they have never learnt to control their abilities one of these women who is staying with us is an echoer. She amplifies the abilities of all those around her. It’s a very dangerous and powerful ability we are struggling to help her control. That is what you experienced. Kenna was unconscious which is why it didn’t affect her so much. Now how did you come to be here on foot of all things? One of our watchers was very surprised when he sensed you walking around the fence.”

“Watcher?”

“They can sense the location of people especially members of the Touched. Now do you care to explain how you and Kenna came to be here?”

“No.”

“It’s not any option. Now please tell me it’s for the safety of everyone living here.”

“Kenna was running away from an abusive family and met me when she was on the run; I helped her escape from him and then some bad people she meet along the way. When I realised she was my soul mate I explained it to her and she trusted me enough to let me help her and come with her to protect her. It wasn’t an easy journey but we have left our problems behind I’m almost certain.”

“Almost? Hmmm. I fine I trust you but there is something you are not telling me and I will find out.”

“You’ll know when you need to know. I’m tired I still have some healing to do. Do you mind leaving now?”

“Fine, sleep well. We will speak again soon.” He smiled at Ephraim and left quietly. Ephraim sighed frowning. Why couldn’t life be simple? He rolled over carefully and tried to sleep.

Author's Note

this is the last one of this for a while let me know what you think :D jules x

Reviews

[Donovan "Grey Wolf" Go..]

wow ultimate sadface that there's no more.:(

[Sean M. Addams]

like what you have so far... very intersting and well done!!

[Denni]

awww man not again! :( ah well on to the next! i really love this one also!

[Papercuts.Hate.You.Too]

can't wait for more!!! I love it,too!!!
Luv,Leylia:)