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was incredibly adroit at reading subtle energies and seeing patterns that he couldn t.
Skylar also barely caught a glimpse of just how powerful she was. He had been trying,
with varying degrees of success, to communicate that to her. Only a portion of
Watchers powers stemmed from their inhuman fathers. Their exceptional mothers had
given them rare gifts, as well. And of course, women like Skylar and Sophia shared, not
only the slight traces of Watchers in their genes, but also a strong influence from their
unusual Watcher mothers. In the case of the four Ammadons, their mothers were more
than unusual, they were Druagish priestesses, women whose potential had been
identified from birth and who were subsequently taught to leash their power. Duse
continued to evolve in his understanding of the subtle essences of not only Watchers
and Watcher mates, but also the subtle bodies of human beings, invisible as they were
to most humans themselves.
All right was Duse s only response after a considerable pause.
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If you accept my assertion that Sophia recognized that human who attacked her
last night, then you must be able to accept that whoever willfully formed the channel
that allowed that violent thought form to attack her must be operating on the Astral
Plane as well. And who did I just happen to run into the second before I encountered
Sophia?
Asmoday, Eli said with an unreadable expression.
Exactly. But not only that, what has Day continually been obsessed with for the
past few millennia?
Duse responded thoughtfully even though he knew Che meant it as a rhetorical
question. The Rush Initiative. His efforts to change Watcher law based on the idea that
the power that Watcher mates can confer rightfully belongs to the entire race and not
just her Watcher lover. He was a convincing political force among us, cleverly posing
the whole conflict into the black-and-white issue of the powerful versus the powerless.
He was always making a big deal about how convenient it is that a large percentage of
Watcher leaders, both on the Grigori council and in the world community, are mated.
He conveniently forgot that what he suggested as an alternative would be the
equivalent of taking away the rights of an entire minority of our society mated Watcher
women.
Duse laughed humorously. Skylar once put it this way, I wasn t put here on earth to
be some kind of power generator for your race.
Che waited while that puissant statement soaked into all their awareness, including
his own. But after the Rush Initiative was voted down by Bale and the Grigori
Council, he continued, a countermovement was begun by a conservative faction. And
Day fought against that initiative fiercely and won. And that piece of legislation
involved
The Dionytion Ceremony, said Bale menacingly.
Che blinked once in surprise at the passion in Bale s voice, as did several of the
other Grigori Council members. Everyone knew that Bale had grieved terribly after
Asmoday s rape and the resulting death of his mate, Helen. He had shown remarkable
poise and strength in regards to Asmoday s trial, however, and never overtly broke
Watcher law. The profound edge of anger in his voice just now reminded all of those
present, however, that it was highly unwise to cross Bale Ammadon.
Exactly, he said quietly. And obviously, for something similar to the Dionytion
Ceremony to occur, something involving the harnessing of immense power, Day would
need not only a mate like Skylar Ammadon, for instance, who he already tried to
abduct earlier but the Stone.
Another tense silence ensued.
Despite all of your criticism against a man who isn t here to defend himself, I can t
help but recall, Zep said quietly from where he sat at the edge of the group, that the
two individuals who voted against the passage of the Mate Law, and thus continued the
ritual whereby Watchers allow a mate s Rush to be conferred to the race a token,
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ceremonial version of what Day argued for on a global level with the Rush Initiative
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