Descend- Seeing Stars, Sean Oswald [best e books to read .txt] 📗

moved, and he could feel the emotions of almost every one of his fuses draw back behind a wall. He was confident he could push through and read any of their minds, especially with his newfound mastery skills but that wasn’t something he would do to any woman in these circumstances and certainly not to women who had become fused with him, another part of his whole.

      “Look, if you can’t speak freely about the things that matter to you in front of your sister fuses then I don’t know what to say. How about this. We will have dinner and discuss the other issues that need to be discussed and then we will have our guests leave and ask some others to watch the children so that just those of us who are fused together can have a heart to heart,” Jay said.

      There were many nodded heads but even more sighs of relief that he felt through the fusion more than actually saw or heard.

      He sat down again, and they all started to eat. After the initial moment of quiet only broken by the occasional cooing of one of the children, Jay continued on, “You all know that I agreed to let you pick the next fuses in the order that you were fused yourselves. I have seen the list of the pods and know that there are a number of pods that have no interested girls or at least only ones that are undecided and a few that have multiples. In fact, I believe every girl in Meikiyo’s pod has expressed an interest.”

      Jay looked to his left where the Japanese beauty sat. She was quiet as had always been the case, but her grief was visible on her face. She simply nodded in confirmation.

      “I don’t want to interrupt whatever order or system that you have decided on and I will honor my word to allow you to pick them in the order that you decide. I will however add that if the next in line wants to pass then they are still the next in line after that no matter how many times they pass. Agreed?”

      There was some clear thinking and obvious telepathic communication between some of the girls but in the end they all agreed. So, Jay said, “That brings me to the other issue to be considered when choosing who should get fused. You all know that when I fuse with one of you that I pass on whichever one of my five base stats is highest to that girl. Obviously, different stats will benefit different people more.”

      “That is true, and it has strengths and weaknesses. Those of us who were fused earlier tend to have more balanced stats as we sync to match the overall total stats of any new fuse with only the variance allowed by level. Having too much disparity between your stats tends to weaken a person overall and so whoever ends up being your last few fuses will suffer from that problem,” Mia said.

      Huong added, “But they will also have the highest stats in a given area.”

      “Anyway, I know the order that the stats will come up in, barring some change to my overall stats. Metabolism will be next, then Awareness, Kinesis, Durability and finally back to Formation again. The pattern should hold true from that point,” Jay observed.

      When no one said anything he asked Ava, “Pet, it is your turn to pick next. Do you have anyone in mind that will benefit from having a huge boost to their metabolism?”

      “Actually yes, Master. I only have one who is for sure interested in fusing with you, but I do think that Deja will come along. A couple of the others clearly won’t, and a couple of the others are still too uncertain,” Ava replied.

      “Okay, so is it this Scarlett girl that you will be picking?”

      “Yes, Master. She is one of the girls from Trudi’s cluster but after conducting her own investigation by speaking to many of the girls who were originally part of Team Jay, she seems quite eager. I know you did your initial refining with her today, but I don’t think you know exactly what her power is. I’m confident that it will be pleasing to you, Master, in more ways than one.”

      Jay thought back to the sheet. Scarlett had some type of duplication ability. It didn’t really sound like a power that he needed but he figured he could always find a use for it. “Okay that is good, and what about you, Amelia, do you have someone in mind who would benefit from a boost to Awareness?”

      The blonde said, “Not really need a couple of Kinesis spots and a couple of Formation spots.

      Harper perked up when she heard Amelia say that, but her pod leader turned to her and said, “You know what we talked about. I promised you will get the next Kinesis spot that I am able to nominate someone for, but for the good of everyone it is important that we add Trudi’s ability.”

      Some telepathic communication must have followed but in the end the normally happy Harper looked rather glum, and Amelia had that frustrated, but firm look on her face.

      Jay then asked, “So who will be nominating someone for Awareness?”

      Huong said, “It would be my turn next. I only have one who is a for sure wants to join us, but I have another who I think can be persuaded.”

      “That is fine and I trust your judgment, wife, but remember that we only want those who truly want to be with us, not those who have to be talked into it, no matter what powers they may bring to the table,” Jay said.

      Huong just nodded, but he felt that they had an understanding. From