Prison Break
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It was a brilliant idea that had just struck him in the middle of the night. As much as he hated to admit, Sasha had first introduced the idea. Why not use Steffana…just not in the way Sasha wanted. There was a way to use her powers; and it would be so much simpler than a prison break. A mind frack! It was the perfect solution. Steffana and her sister Sashana had mind control abilities that were far above and beyond anything he’d ever encountered. All he had to do was to get Steffana into the prison. Once in there, all she had to do was bring the warden under her spell. It was a perfect test case, because it didn’t require any elaborate planning, or more than one additional person. Also, it was fairly risk free. If Steffana was successful in the mind frack, Merlin would be released. If not, they would simply resort to the original plan. Probably, he should have asked Sashana to perform the mind frack, as she was a World Class mind-fracker. But when it came to mind fracks, Sasha could be highly unpredictable. This was one mind-frack where he needed to be in complete and total control. With Steffana, he had that ability.
It was weird how he could totally merge his mind with hers. When he was with her, it was almost as if he could mind-frack, which he couldn’t. And that was a shame because it was such a powerful ability to have, but that seemed to be primarily a female power, with very few exceptions.
He hadn’t even explained the plan to the rest of the crew, because he didn’t want to get their hopes up. He knew how nervous they all were about the prison break. He didn’t want them to think they were off the hook, in case they still had to go through with it. He hadn’t even revealed to Steffana where they were going, just that they were going deeper into the real world. Everything would be fine as long as she followed his lead, and she was very good at that.
Luckily, his mother and his aunt were away, busy making the obligatory appeals at the nearest Viable World Justice Center, for all the good that would do, which was none.
They’d be using Tazar’s Avibike, which looked like a heap of junk, but did it the trick. They would visit Merlin, in the Worldworld Authorized Rehabilitation System, or the WARS for short. The WARS center where Merlin was housed was at least fifty miles away…by bike, in this sun, it would be hard on Steffana, but if it worked. It would be worth it.
They were up before sunrise, because Kieron wanted to cover as much ground before the sun reached its height, as the real world sun was excruciatingly hot. They had ultraviolet shields and sunsuits of course, but even with that protection, the ride was uncomfortable. He’d left a note for the others, it was purposefully vague. Of course Sasha and Othello would freak once they realized he’d absconded with their baby sis. He felt bad for the deception, but he knew if he’d confided in them, they’d never allow the two of them to go it alone. They’d insist on coming along and Kieron didn’t want the extra baggage. It was a simple enough job. He and Stef could be in and out.
On the way there, she held onto him, as though her life depended on it. The way she dug her hands and thighs into his back; well it was…it was almost sisual. He scoffed at the thought of it. Steffana was just a child… and surely she knew nothing about sixe…did she? Because of her five-year absence from the family she was, in many ways, a mystery. Why was she so powerful? And why did she have such a strong pull on him that was almost…he didn’t know how to describe it exactly. It wasn’t that he was attracted to her…she was just a child, and like a sister to him at that. His little darrie doe. But there was some kind of pull there. A connection that defied explanation.
Once they arrived at the WARS she was nearly unconscious, she was so hot.
“I’m sorry, darrie doe, so sorry. But please. I just need you to do this one thing for us…focus. Make us invisible and get us into that building. It will be cooler inside…and then you can rest.”
She did as she was told. Once inside, her temperature began to drop as they began making their way into the dark and dank bowels of the building unnoticed. Kieron instructed,
Use your mind to locate Merlin.
Oh my GAW Kieron! What is this place? Are we inside a WARS?
We are, but don’t panic. Stay calm. Remain invisible. All we have to do is find Merlin, so just concentrate.
Technically, Merlin was his mother’s youngest brother, but, actually, merlin had always been more like Kieron’s big brother. He reflected back on his earliest memories of Merlin: the both of them at his father’s funeral, Merlin holding his hand, and later picking him up and carrying when the grief and the reality of his father’s death became too much to bear. He’d been there for Kieron when no one else could. Othello had been too young, his own mother had been lost in her own grief and Steffana had been, at that time, probably no more than six months old or so. But even then, in her own way, she too had helped him to cope with that painful loss.
Back then; they all liked playing with the baby, and especially Kieron, who had always been an only child. In playing with Steffana, he was able to forget his grief, if only momentarily. Was that the reason they’d become so close? Anyway, through sending her all of his thoughts and feelings about Merlin, she was able to locate
him very quickly. Sometimes, it felt like he and Steffana were one person. And then too, Merlin made it easy given his own receiving abilities. Although Merlin could not mind frack, he could send and receive with great power. They were in his hovel of a cell in no time.
Oh my, my, my, what a sight! To what do I owe the pleasure? Who is this beauty Kieron?
This is Steffana.
Steffana! Little darrie doe, Steffana? Impossible!
No, entirely possible and luckily for you she’s grown into quite the mind-fracker. We’re going to try to frack you out of here, but to do that, we need to get to the mind of the Warden.
How’d you even manage entry?
Invisibility.
She can do that, too?
Merlin surveyed Steffana in amazement and disbelief. Steffana, uncomfortable with the attention of a man she could barely remember, simply looked down.
You don’t remember me, do you Darrie Doe?
She shook her head no, slowly.
I’m your uncle. Uncle Merlin. When I heard your thoughts I imagined your sister. I didn’t know that they had found you! Well welcome home! Give me a hug!
She smiled at him and accepted his embrace. Next Kieron instructed her,
Go up to the above ground levels. It’s much lighter, nicer and safer. Wait for me there. We will find the Warden. No matter what, keep your invisibility shield in tact, you hear?
She nodded that she understood.
Okay, now go. I have to discuss some things with Merlin privately.
Once she left, Merlin castigated Kieron.
Man, what in the hell are you doing bringing her in her! Do you realize how dangerous this is? What the frack!
She is very powerful…
But she is just a kid Kieron! You don’t bring a kid into a place like this! What were you thinking?
I’m thinking about saving your cush…and I don’t have a lot of time, so look, you know the deal. I’m going to put some credits on your account. Is there anyone that you need for me to take care of?
So you think she’s that powerful of a mind-fracker? Really? Do you have any idea how powerful a man the warden is? He has skills.
Of course, but so do we. Relax. It’s done. And if it isn’t, I have a plan B. But while I’m here, let me know what I can do for you.
The guard, outside the door here, I want you to give him an ulcer or something.
It’s done.
Kieron was a double telekine; it allowed him to move things both inside and outside of the body. He had the ability to hurt people, sometimes very badly, just by moving their internal organs.
He’s been bothering you?
Hell yeah… Going through my packages, demanding his cut of my credits.
Then the inmate in cell 45. I need him dead.
Dead?
Yeah dead. He’s a disgrace to the Real World race. A sciser. I can’t tell you how many good men he’s gotten killed. Through scising. Now he’s claiming he’s got the goods on me. I need him dead.
I’ve never murdered anyone before. I draw the line there. But I will hurt him badly…and then I have Steffana frack him. He won’t remember his name once we’re done with him.
Steffana In Prison
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She had no idea why Kieron had brought her to this horrible place; she just knew it was very important to him. She wanted to do as instructed, but what he was asking…well…it just didn’t seem right.
Take away all of his abilities to think, reason, even speak. Scramble his brain.
Kieron…I don’t know if I can do that…why?
Just do it! I don’t have time to explain!
She was struggling with his instructions…pushing people’s thoughts into a certain direction was one thing…but scrambling them, taking away cognitive abilities…she didn’t know where to begin!
Hurry up!
And then he did it. It was as if he took over her mind, and before she knew it, he was doing it. He was some how using her abilities as though they were his own, and there was nothing she could do to stop him! The poor man, on the floor of the cell, he was shaking and foaming at the mouth…she wasn’t sure what Kieron was doing to him, but she was sure it was dangerous. Deadly even.
Stop it! Stop!
But he ignored her. The man suddenly stopped shaking.
Okay, there, now. It’s done. Now let’s go and see the warden. That will be much easier than this.
They went to the Warden’s office and accomplished what is what that Kieron wanted so much. It was, just as he had promised a lot easier. They waited inside the WARS until nightfall, because Kieron explained it would be easier, healthier to travel under the cover of night. No burning real world sun to make her sick.
“Are you okay?” he asked.
He seemed genuinely concerned. Sometimes she wondered how much he really cared. He knew that he concerned himself her teacher, her mentor, but did he ever see her as more than a student? Besides it bothered her how he would just go inside of her mind and just take control over it. She wanted to make him happy…but…at what costs? And why couldn’t she resist him. Didn’t she have a right to her own mind?
“I hated that place.”
“I know. I probably should not have taken you there. I’m sorry. I’ll never take you back.”
“No…It’s okay. I’ll go again, if you need me too. ”
I don’t. We did it Stef! We did it! Easy. Merlin will be free in a moonsike. Steffana, you are incredible.”
He picked her up and swung her around onto the back of the bike. When she did that her heart skipped a few beats. Why did she find herself feeling this way whenever he touched her? She knew she probably shouldn’t. He was her cousin…and like a brother to her. As he mounted the bike, she nestled up close against his back. It was okay, because she felt dizzy and literally needed to hold on to him to stay on the bike. Even though, she could barely hold her head up as they flew through the cool night air, all was well. He made her feel safe. When they returned to the realworld compound at nightfall, they were greeted by almost all of their family. Steffana knew her sister Sasha would be furious. Immediately Sasha thought pounced,
Why would you run off with him Steffie? I’ve been a worried sick all day!
Aunt Kellie, asked Kieron,
“Where the frieke have you been?”
Next she looked at Steffana sympathetically,
“Is everything okay, honey?”
“Of course everything is okay. She was with me.”
“I will deal with you later, but right now, I’m talking to Steffana. I’d like to hear how she feels from her, not you.”
“Steffie, how do you feel?”
“Sun-tired.”
“Of course, well it’s night now. Go on ahead, go into that back room and get some rest.”
The real world sun was something that Steffana had never experienced before. It had made her sick, even with the sun suit Kieron had provided. In most of the real world, the ozone layer had been destroyed with the third world war. This made the sun, which was a lovely, beautiful source of energy in the free world, an ugly, deadly, and painful force of nature in the real world. Where they had dared to go, the envirashields must have been nonexistent, this has caused her sun sickness. She just wanted to get some rest, but she knew that she would not escape Sasha’s mind-lashing.
How could you have been so stupid Steffana! This is really getting out of hand. For him to take you to demolishing sites is one thing…but out in the real, real world! With the unforgiving sun! You simply can’t do these things! You’re not a man! You’re just a girl! Where did you go?
Tell her nothing. Kieron instructed.
Friek him! Tell me everything! Sasha demanded.
She hated being caught between the two of them. It was like having two jackhammers inside her head.
Please let me get some sleep! She begged Sasha.
As soon as her head hit her dirty pallet, that Kieron had insisted she manifest, instead of that lovely king sized bed, she swiftly fell soundly asleep.
Sasha Wonders What’s Up?
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Ever since Steffana had returned, Kieron acted as if she was his personal property. Sasha knew that this was a problem, even if she didn’t know why. She watched her sister sleep soundly on the filthy pallet, while she shot Kieron angry and suspicious looks.
Meanwhile, their cousins surrounded them demanding to know where Kieron had been. He wouldn’t tell them much, just that the prison break was off, because he and Steffana had saved Merlin. The execution was off. Sasha was relieved to hear it. She hadn’t looked forward to orchestrating that prison break with Kieron, even though she knew that they had to do it. They couldn’t just let Merlin die. But she wondered how it had come to be that Kieron’s relatives were banished to this dreadful place. She’d never questioned it much in her youth, but, as coming to Ziona became increasingly dangerous and uncomfortable, she longed to help them find a way out. She also wanted to never have to return to Ziona again. Years ago it had been fun, but over the past few years, it had turned into a real hell on world. She thought whispered to Othello,
You know, it’s not right the way he just takes her places without asking, Othello. She is our darrie doe, we have to protect her.
He’s not going to let anything happen to her. She’s his darrie doe too. I trust him.
Humph.
For some reason, she didn’t. Call it female intuition, but something about the way Kieron treated Steffana wasn’t quite right. Apparently, she wasn’t the only one who thought so. She began to concentrate hard, so that she could hear the conversation taking place between Kellis and Kayshia in the next room. It was beginning to get pretty heated. Kayshia asked,
“When did she come home, anyway?”
“A year ago.”
“How do you know it’s really her? She’s been missing for years. She turns up out the blue and you just take her world for it?”
“Don’t be ridiculous Kayshia, I know my own niece.”
“She’s not your niece.”
“She is my niece, besides she’s always been like a daughter to me. You know how I used to care for her…with, well you know her situation. For me, it’s always been as if she was my very own. I suggest you treat her like that.”
“Well in that case, you’ve got a possible incest situation, because the way Kieron looks at Steffana-”
“What’s wrong with the way he looks at her?”
“It’s not exactly brotherly.”
“Well they’re not brother and sister, Kayshia. They are cousins.”
“But if she’s your daughter, then doesn’t that make her Kieron’s sister?”
“I suppose, but, well, I see what you are implying…and it’s not like that.”
“Well what is it like?”
Sasha tired of listening to that conversation. Besides, she knew what was bothering Kayshia. It was the fact that Steffana was a threat to Endara’s chances. Kayshia had always planned on linking up Endara and Kieron. That, she probably imagined, was her ticket out of this hellworld she was in. But, Kayshia just didn’t know, the only woman powerful enough to penetrate Kieron’s heart had been Maxsin…at least until now. Now it seemed that someone else had captured him, and it was such an unlikely suspect… Steffana! Who could imagine. It was so odd, and yet her Aunt Kellis and Kayshia were confirming what Sasha already knew deep in her heart. Kieron liked Steffana…liked her, liked her, which made all of his secret disappearances with her that much more troubling. Where was he taking her? What was he doing with her? Sasha was determined to discover it!
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