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their thoughts, their intentions, their
motivations, their wants, their needs, the good and the bad, all of
it in a flood of maddening information that my power seems to seek
out. It’s constantly looking for more, until you showed up. Your
presence quelled my power, sent it running,” Emily replied.
    She’s telling the truth. How can she be
telling the truth?
    Ace sat there stunned. She’d never had a Used
tell her that. Not that most of them had been able to say much of
anything. “Can you give us more information about Technosis?”
Angel’s voice came over the intercom, filling in for Ace.
    Emily nodded. She looked much better now that
she had apparent control over her powers. “Now that Ace is here I
can actually think and sort things out. Technosis is an upper tier
Third, a technomancer, born at the very end of that generation. He
was just a Reg until the HSO found him and started screwing with
his powers. They did generational gap tests on him, trying to see
if it was possible to take a Third up to a Fourth. It really
screwed his mind over. When they realized what they’d done to him
they stuck him in a lab and let him loose.”
    “Is he really the one responsible for
Tomahawk’s death?” Ace asked.
    “Not any more than a gun is responsible for
the death of someone who gets shot. The HSO used him to take down
Tomahawk, just like they used him to try and kill you. From what I
could tell the HSO is terrified of you,” Emily replied. She gave
Ace a look of sympathy.
    “Did you see any of their other plans?” Angel
asked via intercom.
    “No, just what Technosis knew, which wasn’t
much,” Emily replied.
    “Thank you, Ms. Carpenter. You are free to
go. If we need anything else we will be in touch,” Angel said after
a brief pause.
    Emily nodded and stood. As she was preparing
to leave she looked at Ace. There was uncertainty painted across
her features, but instead of voicing her concerns she thanked them
and left.
    If what she says is true she doesn’t want to
leave and lose control over her powers again.
    “Good job, Ace,” Torment said over the
intercom. Ace didn’t really have a reply. She didn’t feel like
she’d done much more than serve as a power dampener so Emily could
talk. She’d served her purpose, now she had to go back to writing
her report. There were other things on her mind though, personal
things.
    It’ll be okay. We deal with it later. Focus
on what’s at hand.
    Ace left the interrogation room and met the
others in the gray hallway. “We’ll put her under observation-”
Angel cut off as the blast door opened and uniformed officer came
running down the hall. “Captain Angel sir, Technosis just died in
the holding cell!” 

Chapter 4

    “Damn it!” Angel swore. “How’d it happen?”
    “We don’t know for certain. Riggs and I were
watching him and suddenly he just keeled over. Riggs called up
Einstein and I came to get you,” the officer replied. He looked
worried and a little out of breath. The holding cells were on the
opposite side of the precinct buildings.
    “Ace, I think you had better go and get Ms.
Carpenter. Something tells me she is in danger,” Torment said. The
echo in her voice intensified with her worry. Ace nodded and
started jogging down the hall. The security checkpoints let her
through, but not fast enough. Instead of waiting for the elevator
Ace hit the stairs and leapt up to the first floor landing.
    Just as she popped out the door to the main
lobby she felt a surge of panic that was not her own. Something
told her it was Emily trying to get her attention. Her heightened
hearing picked up the sound of a car door slamming. Ace ran for the
front doors, having to dodge surprised normals and Exceptionals.
She finally, carefully, went through the main doors and out into
the hot August afternoon.
    The streets were crowded, as was expected.
New Davenport was one of the largest cities in the United States of
North America. After the Exceptionals War