The most important change was the quietest - this time, they had the cautious support of the leaders of their people, the Psy Council.īut they also needed support of another kind, the kind that would catch any other lapses and mistakes before they made it to the public domain.and to the ears of the still-skeptical Council. By then, Mercury had begun training a second generation, improving their technique, refining the tools with which to excise unwanted emotion from the heart and madness from the soul. Found by acolytes of Mercury, they were buried in a hidden grave, their deaths termed an accident. Their words were never heard, their terror never understood. Silence must never take root, must never infiltrate the PsyNet. We are an abomination, a plague that will kill our people from within. There was no doubt that it had been a mutual decision.

Tendaji, the strong one, killed Naeem then himself. The dark side of emotion rushed back into the Adelaja twins in an avalanche, and, sixteen years after being heralded as the harbingers of a new future, they committed suicide. Tendaji and Naeem Adelaja were as cool as ice, their emotions holding nothing of anger or madness.for a while. To be Psy was to court the edges of madness.īut then Mercury produced two graduates of their early version of the Silence Protocol - the Adelajas' own twin sons. The Psy laughed at Catherine and Arif Adelaja's claims of being able to free their people from insanity and murderous fury. That was what everyone said at the start.

Caressed by ice