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My Story:
Crazy decisions are key events in Grand
Master’s Pawn.
The empath Violet becomes a pawn in defiance of the prohibition against
psychics. One of
the twelve Grand Masters selected the girl with the dubious heritage. The others
thought he was crazy since her father had prophesied their doom.
Love is
foreign to a Grand Master because exposure to their unshielded power is deadly
to normal people. Violet sees only his griffin avatar. She challenges him to
join her on a mission so she can probe his mind. He yields to the temptation,
and meets her while disguised as another pawn. They search an uncharted planet for clues to an ancient civilization. Now, the Grand Master cannot use
his powers against the hostile inhabitants without risking her life. He makes clumsy
attempts to win her affections while believing their love is impossible.
Taranis caught at her wrist as she reached
toward the hole. “No! It’s dangerous. Let me check inside.” He slid his fingers
into the cavity and withdrew an object. He opened his hand to show her. On his
palm lay a dull red pebble. “A ward stone,” he explained.
He rubbed his thumb across the stone. Power
buzzed from his hand and the siren tug ceased in Violet’s mind. Instead of a
dull pebble, he held a shiny purple stone shaped like an irregular pentagon.
“It is yours, Violet,” he said.
Violet gazed in astonishment as he brushed
his thumb across the stone a second time. The stone changed into a shiny jewel
like a violet flower. She shook her head, and said in a voice edged with
sarcasm, “Very pretty, but completely impossible! Do you expect me to believe
that someone from an ancient civilization just happened to hide a violet-shaped
stone in this ruined wall?”
Taranis winced at her criticism. He offered
the violet jewel to her and insisted, “Take the stone!”
Her brow furrowed as she mused on her
suspicions. Power had flared when he inactivated the ward signal and changed
the color of the stone. She felt, rather than saw, his intense gaze on her
face. Why did he conceal his power as sleight of hand? Did he mean the
glittering violet as a gift, despite his clumsy presentation? Violet sighed and
asked, “Is it your gift, Taranis?”
“You may think of it as such.” He held out
the stone violet on the palm of his hand.
What a dubious reply, she thought, torn between
annoyance and a grudging sympathy. How typical of her evasive Grand Master.
Yet, she knew he was not omnipotent. He had not sensed the attack of the giant
centipede, when its greedy mind was obvious to her.
Violet placed a
finger on the purple gem. She felt the power trickle from his hand, and a
breath of hope feathered from his shielded mind. She curled her fingers around
the ornament, relishing the hum of power from his hand. The warmth of his power
was a better prize than the pretty jewel. She stashed the violet stone in her
pocket, still confused about his intentions and lost for words.
He is not always so serious. As a boy he got into trouble for teleporting frogs into the kitchen sink.
[You too can become a Grand Master if you're born with psi potential and survive the training.]
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