SAVANTS

The Chapture 49

Zed handed me his bedroom tonight and he slept with Xav. Despite my anxious state of mind, I was very mentally exhausted, I managed to sleep, the first completely unbroken break since my abduction.

I woke up the next morning and found my mind had been working at night to sort itself out like a computer through the defragging process.

After stumbling through my early memories, I remembered everything about Las Vegas. Kelly has separated my mind little by little.

He made me think bad things about Zed and Xav, squirting his scribbles all over my mind, I hated him for that.

But now that my thoughts were back, I could tell which was the truth and which was fake and which was the least worth telling, I rushed to find Zed.

"Zed up!" I went into Xav's room next door. Zed was still bound in a cocoon of sleeping bags on the floor, Xav was lying on the bed, his mouth open and snoring. "Zed up!"

"W-what?" He rushed out of the cocoon of his sleeping bag and grabbed me closer, still with his sleepiness. "What's going on?"

"I know who took me! I remember everything." My word.

Xav falls out of bed. "Akh's? What's up?" He said the one that was still closed.

I suddenly became aware that I was standing in front of Zed wearing only a long T-shirt and ****** *****. I should've stopped for pants, gosh.... It's a shame Zed saw me only using ****** *****.

"Um, can you call Trace and Victor, Zed?" I asked, retreating slowly. "I have something to tell them."

Zed who was still staring at me then realized. He grinned and patted my ass. "Wear my nightgown. I'll get them out of bed and meet you in the kitchen. Mom and Dad want to hear this too." He said as he passed and I could see his ears blushing.

I told them what I remembered while drinking tea, my English drinking habits popped up when I felt most uncomfortable.

Memories are scary, hotels, Daniel Kelly forced pictures into my head, boys surrounding me like big fat white sharks.

Victor recorded what I said, nodding as if I justified the things he suspected.

"Another savant family outside the Net savant organization," Zed's father mused after I finished. "Those without a soul mate to add balance. And they have Halloran on the subordinate list. It sounds to me that there's more out there than we thought."

"I know how to manipulate people's minds" Victor said, inserting the recorder into his pocket, "but I would never have thought of doing it that far"

"That's because Kelly's evil and you're not" I said. "I wasn't kidding when I said it was like a brain robbery. He stole my mind from me, tried to make me hate you." I grabbed Zed's hand under the table. "The pictures are still in my head even though I know they're fake."

"Have you ever heard of a boy-like power that Sky told you about?" Zed asked his father to squeeze my fingers to convince him. "I don't like the way he treats Sky, making things worse."

Zef's father rubbed his chin while thinking. "Ute talks about people who thrive on the emotions of others. They're parasites in the savant world."

"And his daughter, what can he do?" ask Uriel.

"Maybe he has talent about shields - at least he's talking about breaking through my shields. But it wasn't strong enough to fight Daniel Kelly. He's very strong. I refuse as long as I can."

"Maybe longer than he expected" Victor commented. "And it wasn't taken right, was it? You ask all the time."

"Are you going to catch him?" Ask me.

"Ah." He sipped his coffee. "The problem is, Sky, this isn't evidence I can use to arrest Daniel Kelly. He's a strong man, his money buys things. No judge will accept your complaint, especially after the confusing version you gave the Las Vegas police by accusing others."

"Yes. They dropped their investigation when I proved that Zed and Xav had nothing to do with your abduction, but that discredited you as a witness."

"So so. So there's no point in me telling you all this?"

"Of course it's worth it. We have the truth now and it binds to things we do not understand or cannot know. It's valuable that we realize that there are other savant out there working on the dark side." He curled his lips. "Yes, we also have a dark side in the savant world. We can enter into all kinds of traps if we remain in ignorance. And that raises the possibility that moles in the FBI don't even know they did. Daniel Kelly could have done something to one of my colleagues and forced them to betray us. I have to review who's been in contact with him." Victor.

I feel better knowing that I have been useful. Awakened by this thought, I checked at seventy-thirty.

"You know something? I want to go to school today." I would give anything to feel normal back with friends who couldn't change my mind, read my mind, or make things explode. It would also delay the big conversation with Zed that I knew was coming.

"Eh?Apa'" Zed rubbed his chin violently. ''You have a good reason to skip class but you want to go?"

"I don't like to ski. It makes me feel as if I'm sick, as if I let Daniel Kelly win''

"Well, if you say it like that, then we should go. I better get ready. Gosh, I didn't bother revising for my physics test, I thought I'd be with you today at home."

Zed's father frowned. "So you used Sky as an excuse to avoid work, Zed ..."

Zed gets up and leaves. "See you here in twenty minutes, Sky."

"I'll tell my parents what I'm planning."

Sally and Simon were so happy that I felt well enough to face school.

"You're right, honey," Sally said by phone, "you need a change of mood and the Benedict family is the best place for you to go."

"But I'm going home tonight." Being here is too painful because I have decided to reject the savant world.

"Great. We're planning a present for you, a little trip."

"Not Vegas?" I groaned, remembering Simon's new idea.

"If you feel better, then we should forget those bad memories - look what this town has to offer."

"I don't want to move there."

"I don't either, baby. But you know Simon, he has to follow this to the end and then he'll decide our way anyway."

I have no desire to go back to the city where Kelly is. "Woman who's been in this relationship, who is she again?" Ask me.

"Mrs Toscana - Mr. Rodenheim's friend apparently."

"What hotel does he manage?"

"I forgot. The Circus Circus? Something like that."

It didn't ring a bell but it just so happened to be too suspicious, I decided to mention my approach to Victor just to make sure. "Okay, Selly. See you soon."