I sighed after sipping my tea and placing the cup down on the counter.
All of us except Mara were gathered in the dining room where tea had been prepared so that we could listen to Amber's story.
Mara wasn't here since she already knew about it and was making sure we were on course on the bridge.
I looked at Amber, "Ok, so let's start from the beginning I guess? Or wherever you think is a good starting point."
She held her cup with both hands and sucked in a deep breath before letting out a deep sigh.
"Alright… First thing I have to say is that they did ss with my mories sowhat so I don't rember everything. I will also explain the mory part as well in a little bit but I'll start with what I rember first… One of the first things I rember was sitting on a table and being held down with straps. I distinctly rember a face looming over and he was shining a light in my eyes before he pulled away. Then a chanical arm ca down with a syringe loaded with the drug which, of course, I did not know what it was at that ti, but it was injected into my arm. Then I felt pain and blacked out."
I grimaced, "That was… How long ago?"
"I'm not very sure… They don't really let us know the ti but I do rember that I was quite small at that ti since everything looked big to ."
"What about before that?"
"I don't rember what my life was like before that. It's like my past was totally wiped clean. I don't know where I'm from, whether I had family or even how I ended up there. Everything before that mont was just gone."
"They can just… Wipe mories like that?"
Amber nodded, "It's a secret but yes. And anyone outside the circle who says so is treated like a conspiracy theorist."
Right… Figures that might be the case.
I nodded at her to go on.
She let out another sigh, "After that… Things were mostly a blur to and my mory of it was very fragnted. The station was trying to create super soldiers so what they were trying to do was to make loyal Psionic soldiers who will not question any order and are fiercely loyal to them."
"Like 'them' as in… The governnt?" Lea asked, the Alv having a really serious look on her face.
Amber shrugged, "Who knows? Might just be so people controlling it from the shadows and trying to do this to overthrow the current governnt. I never found out how deep this went, I just know that there were so involvent and that's about it."
I leaned forward in my seat, "So what did they do to wipe your mory?"
Amber tapped the side of her cheek with a finger, "There was an actual Psionic on the team. I think he was exiled or ran away from their family but he was working together with researchers. He ca up with a mind altering technique where the mont we start confiding and talking about our experiences in being experinted on to soone or sothing that we are attached to but that person or thing does not share the sa emotional attachnt or were unaware about the experint, everything that we said would be forgotten the next ti we woke up."
I blinked at her, "That… Sounds extrely convoluted."
Ries suddenly smacked the table with her palm, "Oh! I know why! They are planning to use this on soldiers to prevent them from getting PTSD!"
Amber made a face, "I don't know if that's what they were trying to do… But I guess it makes sense?"
Our Maochatte hopped up and down on her seat, "I know this one! Because during the battle on planet Xetarva, there were quite a lot of soldiers who got traumatised by the fight and it even made it to the news that there was a massive increase in soldiers seeking therapy! But then sohow, the very next day, those soldiers were back on the frontlines again like nothing happened and fighting fit once more!"
"Wait, wait… You're telling they already got the tech for it?" I asked, horrified.
Ries shrugged, "I dunno, but maybe?"
I waved my hand, "Nevermind then, we're getting side tracked, so that ans you basically made yourself forget about the worst part of what you experienced by talking about it?"
Amber nodded, "There were a number of us, all of us still kids. They gave a stuffed toy and that was the one that I basically started talking to and having my mind wiped because of it. There were other kids who would talk with psychiatrists who were in on the experints or even each other. The whole thing was just one big experint. I suppose one thing I should be glad about is that I don't have much trauma about it thanks to that…"
Hardly sothing to be thankful for but I guess it's better than nothing…
Amber took another sip of her tea before continuing, "So I do rember eting so of the kids, but I believe they all died sowhere along the way. Everyti I recalled back, I was looking at a different batch of kids, since they made us stay in a large room together instead of having individual rooms… If I wasn't wrong, every kid kept dying after a few experints and I was the only one who was living through them all. That got them quite excited but the problem was that no matter how much of the drug they injected into and how many testing they did, I wasn't showing any signs of obtaining Psionic abilities."
"How would they know that you don't have it?" I asked.
"There were a lot of tests, like making try to move a ball without touching it, lifting things physically that were obviously too heavy for to move, putting in a completely white room that was completely soundproof and then also putting in a completely black room that was also soundproof. There might have been others but I just forgot about them."
"Ok, that is making worried about what you might have forgotten… Especially if the other kids were dying."
She shrugged, "I wouldn't know anyway. But I think most of them died from the drug and not because of the testing."
Then I realised sothing, "Wait, you ntioned about forgetting stuff if you talk about it. Would you be alright after this?"
She giggled, "Ehehe~ You already know about this and I don't believe you are apathetic towards , are you, Tera?"
"Ah… I see. But does that an that condition is still stuck with you?"
"For now… I'm hoping to be able to get rid of it sohow eventually. It's fine anyway, I don't intend to just tell everyone I et about it."
"So… I guess you ended up with a different power then? Being able to control fire?"
She shook her head, "No, Tera. I am also a Psionic. A man made one but a Psionic nevertheless."
I blinked at her, "Then… That ans Mara can also…"
"No, no. As you already know from her case, there are also differences in abilities between Psionics. There are the normal Psionics who are able to do the standard things like telekinesis and telepathy. Above them though, are Elental Psionics."
"Ok, that sounds really cool already, and I assu you are one?"
Amber nodded, "Mara would be considered a normal Psionic even though her mind reading abilities are way better than mine. But she is limited in her Psionic manipulation where she is only able to move objects that she can see, or as we might call it, on a macro level. But Elental Psionics are able to manipulate things on a molecular level to create elents, though most of the ti we would only be adept at controlling one elent. For , I guess you already figured out that my elent is fire."
"Right, but how does it work? You said you needed to use your suit's oxygen to create the fire?"
She lifted her hand and started rubbing her index finger and thumb together, "That's right. The way I do it is I get so air molecules, then create a little friction for heat… Add a little bit more air into it and…"
A fla appeared right above her thumb and finger just like magic, except now I know that it wasn't magic but a manipulation of air particles to force heat in the air before spontaneously combusting it forcefully to create the fire.
She waved her hand around and the fla floated through the air to do a revolution around her before stopping in front of her again.
"That is so cool," I muttered, transfixed by the fire.
She waved her hand and the fire winked out of existence, "Well, I guess you know this secret now. What do you think?"
"What do I think? I think you got hotter than before Amber!"
"Really? Then… Wanna fuck on this table?"
My gods Amber… At least finish your tea first…
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