Salient Secret 2

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Kai

"What?" Savannah asks because I'm staring at her. I can't help it, she's mesmerizing. 

"You're magnificent," I say still looking at her intently while propped up on my arm in bed. 

"Okay well cut it out now," she says blushing not knowing what else to do. I don't say anything else, I pull her towards me and bring her soft lips into mine.

"Sir. We have a code red. The base in Brazil has just been blown into pieces," Agent Mccoy informs me standing while at the door, looking upwards, away from naked Savannah and I. 

"Any casualties?" I ask. 

"No sir."

"Alright, I will be right there. Dismissed." With that, he leaves the room and I get out of bed, put clothes on and make my way to the op center. 

"What do we have so far?" I ask approaching the agents sitting by computers. 

"One of the cameras caught this before they were taken out..." An agent says while showing me a distorted image of a girl with short blue hair. 

"Do we have a name?" 

"Imelda Daniels."

"Sir we have reason to believe she was not alone." 

"Who else was she with?"

"We don't know."

"Well where is she?"

"We don't know that either. They left no traces whatsoever. And, you should also know that Imelda Daniels and her brother, Balderik Daniels,  have no known relatives, they were put into foster care after their parents died 12 years ago. They themselves supposedly died 6 years ago in a tragic car accident." 

"You think she's working with the brother?"

"It's a strong possibility sir. But we can't know for sure. We also believe whoever did this is  responsible for the unresolved murders and the disappearances of Salutis members. Their  pattern is very clear, they're after Salutis." 

"Alert all Salutis bases that we're being targeted. Tell them to be on high alert and put out a wanted poster for finding and capturing Imelda Daniels, as well as everyone she is working with." 

"Yes sir." 

"What do we do now?" another agent asks. 

"Get Palmer and Lorenzo. We're going hunting." 

*****

"Kai, what exactly is your plan here?" Palmer asks, looking at the burnt down Salutis base. 

"I'm trying to shift into that girl, now shut up so I can focus." 

After 10 seconds of silence Enzo sarcastically says, "You look exactly like her." 

"It's a lot harder to shift into someone whose face is the only thing you've seen. I have no idea what her body looks like." 

"Maybe all we need is her head," Palmer's words result in a very perplexed look on mine and Enzo's face. 

"No, I mean, if we have her face, we might have traces of her mind. If we have her mind..."

"...we could find out something about her." I finish off Palmers thought train and close my eyes, picture Imelda and change my face into hers. Enzo and Palmer burst out laughing. 

"Oh grow up you two." My body and Imelda's head is clearly the funniest thing in the world to them. 

"Okay okay. Sorry," Enzo says while pulling out his phone and taking a picture of me. 

"Alright. Can we focus now?" I'd expect this behaviour from Palmer, but not my 24 year old brother. 

"Yes we can," Palmer says walking towards me. She puts her hands on my head and I can feel her energy flowing through me. 

"What?" I ask after she pulls away gasping for air. 

"I can't get in."

"What do you mean you can't get in?" 

"There is something keeping me out of her mind and it's strong." 

"How is that even possible?" Enzo asked clearly puzzled by this obstacle that we've never had to face before. 

"Whoever they are...they know about my powers." 

***** 

"What like a mind power blocker?" Savannah asks.

"Yeah. That's what Palmer said. My guess is that it's some sort of technology in her head." 

"That would mean she knows about Palmers powers and possibly everyone else's."

"That is what makes her so dangerous." 

"Wait, do you think she's also a fulminare?"

"You know I hate that word. And no. That's impossible. We know exactly who Dane injected." 

"How else would she know then?" 

"That's what we're trying to figure out." 

Vada 

"Uh oh," Imelda says at the dinner table.

"What?" we all ask. 

"Something is wrong with my mind inhibitor," shit. 

"Everyone to the box. Now," I order. The box is what we call the concrete room with no way in or out without the help of teleportation. Dane built a mind inhibitor to prevent Palmer from reading his mind, Cassian duplicated it so that we could all have one in case she tried reading our minds one day. The computer in the box is the only one that is linked to the inhibitors, it has all our inhibitors data, if the wrong people get a hold of it, we'd be in serious trouble.

"I must say Vada, I thought you were being paranoid when you said there's a little girl out there who could read our minds even if we're 1000 miles apart," Tanith comments. 

"Unfortunately I was right." 

"Here. She was trying to access your entire mind. You want the good or the bad new first?" Cassian asks us.

"Good," Rik replies.

"The fact that she was trying to access her whole mind instead of a section means that she has no idea what she is looking for. They probably only have her face, if they good, they'll have a name," he explains.

"Okay, what's the bad news?" I ask. 

"They now know we have mind inhibitors that specifically block her powers." 

"They know we know." Great.

"There goes our element of surprise," Tanith adds.

"I think we gave that up when we exploded their base," Imelda replies.

"We still have the element of surprise," I say. 

"How?" Cassian asks.

"Are you kidding me? They have one name. If they smart they have Rik's name because they're  siblings. But they will never guess I'm alive, or that we all have deadly powers and let's not forget about the fact that I know everything about their 3 strongest soldiers and they know nothing about us."