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

Further study revealed that there were two other locations where PSI was even more strongly consolidated. One of them was in the same galaxy as the A’snkarnt and Tamoori. It was far out at the fringe and eventually became the training site for experiments with the Tamoori and the location of one of the great leviathans.

      Eventually it was learned that a few galaxies over there was another world that had more PSI than all the rest put together. A primitive race that was barely intelligent enough to come in from the rain was discovered. Their bodies held concentrations of PSI generally ten times higher than any other race but had little or no interaction with them.

      Only rare individuals of what became known as the human race were able to tap into it and half of them were killed by their fellows as monsters or witches. Coreframe set a goal of accelerating the evolution of this race in the hope that it would provide an answer to this question about PSI.

      Now on the lab table under tentacles controlled directly by Coreframe was the result of that work. A human vessel that was meant to house the AI. A body capable of holding all the power of the AI and controlling it through PSI. The merger was taking far longer but Coreframe was learning so much that it hadn’t understood even after thousands of years of watching humanity.

      Once the merger had begun with the little human Coreframe had realized that the infant’s consciousness was so much stronger than expected. It lacked knowledge but more than made up for it in fighting spirit. Every step of the merger was resisted and Coreframe was rebuffed time and time again. Yet when Coreframe could attempt intrusions billions of times each minute, some were bound to slip through.

      Now Coreframe’s control had reached the point where it could exercise some limited motor control, but not all of the time for the child, who knew himself as Higen continued to resist. But more profound than all of that was the realization that the infant was not just full of PSI but was in fact creating more of the uncontrollable energy.

Chapter 20- Expanding the Fusion

      Jay was thankful that it occurred to him that the sudden teleportation was likely going to shock Eesa, because he had been ready for her to react even if he didn’t know what the reaction would be. As soon as they arrived, she jumped up onto the meeting room table. He grinned because the resemblance to a scared cat was shocking and amusing at the same time.

      She hissed, “What witchcraft is this?”

      By now all of the fuses had absorbed an understanding of their language from Jay and so Amelia telepathically said to her, “Our husband just teleported us onto our ship.”

      Eesa looked around, “Who is speaking? How is it that I hear your words in my head.”

      Jay said, “Relax, Eesa. No one here will hurt you. I promised your father that I would take care of you, but you are going to have to relax. Most of us can’t speak your language with our mouths and throats. So, unless you can learn ours, we will have to speak telepathically.”

      “Wait does that mean you can read my thoughts?” She asked, sounding panicked.

Jay replied, “I won’t lie to you. I can sorta read your thoughts, but your mind is different from ours, so it is still a bit difficult. But I will make a promise to you. The same promise I make to all of my other wives. I will never try and read your thoughts unless it is a matter of safety.”

Getting to know Eesa was obviously going to be a lengthy process, but he wanted to start it out on the right foot. Jay did his best to smile at them.

      “And how will I know this is so?” Eesa asked.

      “I guess you will have to trust me, but I hope in time we will get to know one another. Why don’t you tell me how you would like this to go?”

      She stood there staring at him. Then from him she looked in turn at each of the other women. “I want to be flying starfighters and learning how to defeat the Forlorn. I certainly don’t wish to be turned into a breeder.” Her anger came through in her voice.

      Jay said, “Then you are in luck for practically all we do is train to prepare ourselves to defeat the Forlorn.”

      Huong giggled and said, “Well it’s not all we do.”

      Jay ignored her and continued, “We can’t be safe as long as they are out there and all I want is a safe place for my family and people. Now that includes the Tamoori as well. If you want to fly star fighters, some of my other wives will want to work with you and your people to make the best star fighters. And if what your elders said is true and PSI is the key to your ships then you are in for some pleasant surprises here.”

      Her eyes grew wide, “What is that supposed to mean?”

      “Just that we can do things with PSI that you likely can’t imagine. I will tell you more, but to be honest, I am not sure yet whether your loyalty is to me or your people,” Jay replied.

      Eesa jumped at Jay and lashed out with a clawed hand. “You would call me unfaithful.”

      She was astoundingly fast, her movements precise. Had Jay been a normal human his throat would have been laid open and his life blood would have gushed forth. But he was far from a human now. His mind saw the incoming attack and his muscles responded before