Descend- Seeing Stars by Sean Oswald (the ebook reader .TXT) 📕

do so. It was just something that he had never attempted before. He formed his power to create the tempus fugit field then began to force the flows of time in the opposite direction. The science of what he did was beyond his understanding and truthfully, he didn’t care about that, at least not at the moment. For now, this was an ability that he possessed, and he wanted to get better at using it, to make it more natural.

      For good measure he also reinforced it with a PSI construct wall to both add a second prison wall and provide protection to those within the time sphere. Ultimately, he only needed a portion of the PSI that he now held and likely would need less when he attempted the same in the future. It always seemed that the more skilled he got with any of his abilities the less draining they were.

      Then the field stabilized, and he disconnected from it. He examined it and was content that he had accomplished what he wanted to. The ratio was only 1176:1 but time was definitely flowing more slowly within the field than outside of it. This should buy them the time that they needed.

Amelia asked, “Did it work?” Her voice warbled a bit, and he could feel that she was being affected by all the power channeled through her. Each time the power pulsed through all of them she would be the first to feel it come from him and the last to feel the expanded burst go back to Jay. She was the linchpin of the circuit so to speak and from what he could feel of her emotions she was starting to really like it, almost to the point of addiction.

      “Yes, perfectly, and with far less PSI than we created,” Jay replied as he carefully broke the circuit allowing the excess PSI to bleed off into the surrounding atmosphere while simultaneously using some of it to make minor enhancements to each of the girls.

      It was difficult to juggle six balls at once, but somehow his mind seemed to be expanding to handle tasks like this. It was less about increased intelligence, as Amelia would no doubt point out to him, and more about an increased awareness. Perhaps his ability to handle multiple things at once was even a subconscious extension of his temporal manipulation. It would be worth thinking about later.

For now, though he was just content to see six incredibly happy girls smiling at him, each on the cusp of bliss brought on by the circuit followed by the modifications he had made to strengthen their bodies further. It had been the work of a second but with all that PSI he had probably added half a dozen points of Durability to each of them.

      The look in Amelia’s eyes said that just like the girls in the science lab she wanted some alone time with him. Apparently controlling the fabric of the universe and manipulating time was a turn on even without the aphrodisiac. The same expression was mirrored in five other sets of eyes.

      Jay grinned and then sighed. It was such a burden, but he would just have to be man enough to live up to it. Over the next minute he spent hours with his various fuses and then from there once everyone was content, he moved on to the other clusters and made the same offer that he had given Cluster 2. Well actually to the other floor clusters that had not been introduced to Team Jay prior to the final attack.

      Ultimately each accepted the offer, usually with far less animosity than Cluster 2. The reality was that they would be safe, only an hour would pass for them and it would prevent a confrontation now. The next question he had to deal with was what to do with the two clusters that D’varn had dumped on him shortly before their escape. They had been offered the opportunity to sort out how they wanted to fit in with Team Jay and Team Miguel and Jay wasn’t sure he should go back on that now.

      Oh well, all leadership couldn’t be the fun parts.

Chapter 4- Expanding the Team

 

In theory now that all the clusters he didn’t know were put into time distortion fields the next meeting should be easier. Should being the operative term. Team Jay and even Team Miguel had his full trust, the issue was that there were sixty women that he didn’t know who had officially been made a part of his cluster before the escape.

      He had met with their leaders Cecelia and Trudi. They had both seemed like nice, if overly eager young women. It had to say a great deal about them that they had been able to hold their clusters together after all the guys had died. For a second, he wondered if that made him sound sexist, but then he decided that it was appropriate to say of anyone who had managed to hold a cluster together.

      The question now was whether he should even care about the cluster system or anything like that. So what that the A’snkarnt had sent those sixty women to him. After D’varn’s actions, not to say anything of what S’vanth had done, Jay didn’t really give a rat’s ass what any A’snkarnt thought.

Then again, they had told those sixty women that they would have a chance to join Team Jay or Team Miguel. Admittedly no specifics had been laid out but dealing with them fairly was more about him being true to his word rather than honoring any sort of A’snkarnt system. Thinking of that system though, he pulled up the leaderboard. He still had access to it until the implants were removed, heck maybe even the new implants would be able to access the