unnatural way of carrying and birthing. It was her own body’s signal of saying that it was sick and needed healing. The offspring a female in question is still surviving at a First One place of medical technology due to that the High Council didn’t have anything for her to survive.”
Tom sigh hearing that as the Listener kept talking “Also the male this female mated with becoming blind was a result of the sickness passed to him. The sickness gave him the side effect of blindness due to some drug within his system. The blindness was removed and the male in question can see again. The healing done triggered something within the male that has been kept quiet making it come out. It proved to be what the male needed instead of depending on medical technology for special abilities.”
Tom didn’t comment a response figuring out that the Listener was talking about him and Thura. The Listener he saw walked off once done talking which he stared at Barry finding the male was looking in his direction. Barry appeared to have eavesdropped on the talk by the looks of his expression. He frowned as Barry’s eyes narrowed followed by some glaring stare formed on the male’s face.
He sighed as Barry spoke “Admit your feelings regarding this situation Mindbender.”
Tom spoke hearing the firmness in Barry’s voice tone “I reacted quite badly to the poisoning and passing away of this female without knowing the actual reason for her death. Just sad knowing that there’s offspring I fathered through her that will grow up without knowing her very much. I grew up raised by a female Freeloader without knowing my actual parents or their influence in my life.”
He sighed as he paused to hear from Barry “Interesting, Mindbender. I heard from talk among the Freeloaders that they don’t forget things very easily. Their very willing to share things in the past to off springs by having them mind scan them on things they saw in the past.”
He frowned hearing that as Barry kept talking “From what I heard it appears that the Freeloaders on Uzan share the same attitude. The ones on Shadan got this from their parents just prior to being exiled to here. I’m pretty sure that your offspring regardless of where they are will be told very crystal clearly of you and your female being their parents as their raised by others.”
He formed a frown on his lips as Barry went silent giving him a glaring stare which he figured that the male wanted him to talk.
He spoke “Hopefully their told all various points of views regarding me and my female. I was exiled from Uzan and do not want my offspring to be raised to kill me once grown.”
He heard a sound of doors banging open shift to look as Barry did the same and saw a Freeloader male enter the room with an obvious cut scar on the male’s cheek.
He frowned as the Freeloader walked up to Barry and stood speaking “It took a great deal of convincing. The Queen on Uzan has agreed to tell Tom’s offspring once the Keo raisers are sure their old enough to get it the actual reason for his exile. The offspring will be carefully monitored for any negative reactions to the telling.”
He kept his mouth shut as the Freeloader added “I confess that Uzan’s Queen ordered a Keo to mate with a female belonging to Mindbender which was done and a male offspring was produced from the coupling.”
Tom was instantly on his feet feeling himself angry hearing that as he heard Barry’s voice sounding in some odd tone in foreign language. He felt himself compelled to sit down and be calm and found himself obeying to the compulsion order.
He continued to listen to the Freeloader’s talk who spoke “The Keo in question who mated with this Thura was found to be at fault for her sickness that was ending her life. The Keo passed onto her a sickness that was killing her slowly.”
Tom felt rage hitting him willed himself to calm as the Freeloader kept talking “The Queen had this Keo punished by having some First One cut his face with a knife forming a scar. The sickness was passed onto this Thura on purpose from the mating in an effort to kill her off. The Keo was punished with his own offspring taken away and raised by a pair of Keos with First One influences. The Keo raisers were included with orders to be very clear tell the offspring what happened to his parents and why he’s not raised by them along with monitoring him for negativity.”
Tom forced himself to keep his mouth shut and not talk as the Freeloader stopped talking and faded from view which he eyed Barry.
Barry spoke “Interesting except that Freeloader was just a messenger relaying what he heard from others of his species. I highly doubt that part of what he said was the actual truth but actually some rumor going around among his species. The rumor was seemingly too good to keep quiet about hence he sharing it with us.”
He frowned hearing Barry’s words as the male spoke in foreign language he assumed it was it while using some voice tone. He felt himself compelled to stand up along with finding himself back into a bedroom belonging to the High Council he figured was an observation room from the black ceiling seen. He shifted to stare at the bed to see with shock Thura lying naked asleep on it and appearing to look alive to him. He darted towards the bed and kneeled next to it grabbing Thura’s hand and placed his other hand on her forehead. Tom felt shock seeing her chest rise up and down as she breathed deeply. He gently rubbed Thura’s forehead feeling himself happy seeing her alive. Thura he saw opened her eyes with confusion in them and looked at him with recognition in them. Tom stared at Thura back who rolled over onto her right side still gripping his hand in a tight grip. He sensed her ignoring his other hand on her forehead and gave him a smile not baring her teeth. He frowned as this was followed by Thura shutting her eyes and sensed she had gone asleep again. He stared at Thura who gave up several sounds of sneezing to him along with coughing before becoming silent but remained asleep. Tom let go of Thura’s hand and removed his hand from her forehead as if drawn. He found the scene changed to see he was in the High Council’s throne room form sideways facing the group with their familiar Highlander speaker there. He got up to stand with arms folded twisting his form to face the High Council. He again grimaced as he felt his mind scanned by some sense blaring within him telling him of that instead of a familiar headache. He grimaced inwardly as the scans seemed lengthy then stopped.
The speaker spoke after raising his head “Says this female you're apparently fond of was detected going into some kind of trance status. Her form appeared dead except for her beater organ was still beating away. The beater's activity was indicating her still alive. There was faint activity from her mind organ detected as said by the Meritanians scanning her. The poison detected in her system was fighting some kind of sickness detected within her. Both cancelled each other out and she got sick with something related to drug withdrawal and cold sicknesses. This female from mind scans is aware of you having this Berserker ability. The trance left her doing some projection ability seeing inappropriate things around here including seeing what happened to you. We regret to inform you that this female cannot be sent to Uzan. She saw various scenes while in a projection form. She from mind scans appears to have clear knowledge of what she’s seen. The information that must be kept secret for a certain time period which will be revealed once the time has arrived.”
Tom frowned hearing that as the speaker bowed his head followed by again sensing his mind scanned seemingly lengthy.
Ramses’ voice sounded in his mind speaking “Actually High Council, you can stop doing that to Mindbender. Its obvious that he’s detecting you scanning him by his senses alerting him of that instead of familiar head pain of what’s called a headache.”
Tom frowned hearing Ramses’ talk as he sensed the scanner withdrew from his mind by senses alerting him of that.
He continued to hear Ramses the Meritanian adding loudly in his mind “By the way High Council you might want to do something about those Freeloaders scanning certain non Highlanders’ minds for information regarding you and your secrets. Their doing the scanning after overhearing you blabbing about this information bit to one of those manoids.”
Tom heard nothing mor
e from Ramses as the speaker raised his head and spoke "Says we have a job for you. You're to assist Excuser with a job as in protecting him while he does the job. Ramses transport Mindbender to a discreet location for meeting Excuser now."
Tom frowned finding himself on a stairwell with a door facing him illuminated of sunlight around its outline. He walked up the stairs and yanked open the door. He spotted a familiar Highlander crouched down near the edge of the wall of a building he assumed it was. He saw Excuser having a long gun weapon pointed over the edge despite the sunlight blaring overhead. Tom eyed Excuser who looked in his direction doing a double take look.
He heard a male monotone voice sounding in his mind bringing his Banshee side out unexpectedly "Get down on the ground and crawl towards me. City natives down below can see people on here if their standing and keep that form in control while your at it."
He obeyed to tummy crawl himself up to the Highlander and got told "Keep an eye on the door while I concentrate on the job."
He twisted his form to face the door eyeing it while glancing at Excuser he assumed was the Highlander's name. He saw appeared to keep his eyes over the building's edge while still holding the gun weapon. Tom