NovelEnglishOnce we were all outside Ra looked around casually. I saw her sharp eyes scanning the area around us. Hannah did the sthing.
“The things they use,” Hannah said softly, “glitter in the light…like a camera Lens. I did not see any here when we looked at this area.
I understood the word and I remembered how a piece of curved glass would catch the light. Bane clucked his tongue and leaned back on a piece of rock. Kein made a similar sound and nudged Bane’s shoulder.
“Told you they weren’t just pieces of the wall,” Kein said feeling vindicated.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtAs children there had been these shiny pieces to the walls of the training grounds. Kein had noticed them and Christof had asked. The Child Keepers said they were just how a wall was made and to Leave them alone.
“Nu-reeh and your female breeders have always watched you,” Hannah said gently. “They are a way of sending images from place to place.”
“They watch you still,” Ra said cautiously, “we saw two in the main room with the pool in the area where you all stay. They seemed aimed at the entranceway.”
“We doubt they are in your living quarters,” Hannah said to Damien.
“They would want to make sure Mama was safe. They would use them to monitor any men entering or leaving the main area with the pool.”
We would check once we were home. Damien wanted to know what to call them. The word Hannah used was roughly equivalent to camera in English. In my mind, that’s what they were.
Christof wished fervently that I knew more about cameras. Even though my Knowledge was Limited he was glad for the comparison, so they could understand.
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“Your Mama,” Christof said hesitantly, “knows this word. On Earth she remembers them transmitting sound also sometimes.”
It shouldn’t have surprisedChristof would have picked up on that detail. I never would have thought to ask.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“They cannot,” Ra said, “the ore in the mountains disrupts their ability to transmit sound well. You need a pad to do that and it would need to be close to the originator of the sound.”
“Even then it doesn’t always cin clearly,“ Hannah finished.
The men thought for a moment about what the girls had told us. There was a more pressing issue here, though and Damien got to it.
“She can control us,” he said getting right to the point. “How does she do it?”
Ra explained, because she understood it better. The women could connect to their men, In the past the connection had gone both ways. The women were actually bonded to the men they kept. The families connected deeply to one another.
“Families of women kept as many men as they safely could. They shared a sacred bond with each family. The bonds took tto grow, but often they were as strong as the bonds you share with your Brothers,” Ra calmly explained. “Once the women decided to keep the men separate from them, the bonds withered away. Soon the women Learned they could force a bond, but they didn’t like giving the men access to themselves.”
Hannah interrupted and finished the story sounding angry, “Now there is a chip. Women that own men attune it to the families they keep. You cannot connect to her and she can’t fully integrate into your bond, but she has access to you. She can implant a thought or a summons into you. The idea is placed so deeply that you all believe it originated there.”
We were shocked, every one of us surprised to our core. The men never evaluated where an idea originated. If it was agreeable to the majority, it was just accepted. Of course sideas were so strong from one of us, we just allowed those things to happen. That must be what Nu-reeh was using, our desire to make the most opinionated Brother happy-
“If she finds you know this,” Ra warned, “it will mean your death. The other women are protective of this information.”
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