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Beyond My Knowing, chapter 28
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”Then… we should get ready soon.” Kes replied. ”First though… Lanam, I think we need to talk a little while first.” She touched her daughter’s face fondly, and ruffled her hair a bit.
Lanam laughed and nodded. ”About what, momma?” She asked, and Kes could tell her daughter was worried about their family being separated, but she also trusted her very much, and was excited about meeting Artem’s family. She still didn’t know that Vastu was her and Tresit’s brother. That was something else they needed to tell her, she and Anara reluctantly agreed, both feeling guilty that they hadn’t so far, only… maybe not now. It would be too much, they decided, with the other thing they had to tell her. And… much as she and her wife didn’t want to consider it, there was still the possibility that they might not succeed in bringing Vastu home, and, even now, neither of them wanted to disappoint their daughter that way if they couldn’t succeed as they hoped to.
”Come.” Kes said warmly, getting to her feet and picking Lanam up in her arms, carrying her over to her and her wife’s bed and sitting on the edge of it, Anara settling on the floor on her knees next to them, holding Lanam’s hand and running a hand through her hair in a comforting way. ”Asasha, something… happened last night, while we slept.”
”While we slept?” Lanam asked, confused. Kes could sense her young mind trying to guess what could happen while sleeping, besides a dream, that wouldn’t wake everyone up and not finding an answer. ”What was it?”
-You know how I can do things, like talk without talking?- Kes asked her mind to mind.
Lanam laughed. ”I remember.” She said. ”You don’t do that anymore though. Why not?” She asked, always one for asking questions whenever they occurred to her.
Kes smiled to herself fondly. Her daughter was in her lap, facing Anara, so she couldn’t see her face, but she already felt like she could see her daughter’s expression in her mind, even without looking through Anara’s eyes to do it, which she wasn’t doing at the moment. It felt, in a way, like Lanam and Tresit had always been hers, even though they obviously hadn’t been. She wondered to herself if that feeling of time came more of her bond with Anara, or from her own feelings of love for them. She knew it wasn’t only one or the other, but she sometimes wished she could know her own mind more fully than she seemed to be able to. ”Once I learned to speak aloud, I suppose I thought you’d be more accustomed to that. More comfortable, if I talked like you talk. Talking without words, my people can do that whenever they want to, but we still only do it sometimes. Whenever it feels right, I guess. There’s no rules about it, but… speaking into another’s mind, it usually has more of a feeling of intimacy than speaking aloud does.”
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KES did it,oh what a beautiful thing.LANAM being able to see .Still not trusting ARTEM,even TRESIT still looks at him as the enemy not to be trusted.KES being able to read his mind is a huge plus and he knows it.Thanks for update