Harbringer (a PSi-KICKS story)

© 1996 G.F Willmetts (UK)

I'm not really a Blank although I might as well be one. Blanks are impossible for Psionics to read or, as they prefer to call it, scan. Some Psionics cheat and can read a Blank's body language but they can't dig beyond that.

Blanks are scan-proof. As such they can monitor a Psionic's activities and some have got, so I hear, a licence to kill under certain circumstances. Lucky them. I do that all the time. In their case, they'd better be right.

I've heard that a distracted Psionic accidentally killed a Blank who tried to interrupt him once. Blanks might be immune to scanning but a telekinetic jolt, commonly called scooping, can reach even them. Then there's me.

The big-league Psionics would rather not scan me as all. They fear feedback and mental linkages. Something to do with continually crossing other people's paths.

Psionics aren't that tough. I heard one mutter something about walking under a ladder with a black cat would be preferable to me. I hope he was joking. I'm really a nice person. Jack, my latest shrink told me so. I'm just not very lucky for people around me.

Don't let your ability drive you to distraction, Jessie Opal. You're more than that', he told me, Your gift just provides for a few different options.'

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