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Beyond My Knowing, chapter 28

While she’d been comforting Lanam, Anara had used Kes’s mental abilities to tell Tresit not to tell Lanam about the return of her mother’s sight just yet. Anara was getting more and more adept at doing that, actually. It had started with the sight sharing, and now that they’d shared themselves so completely, it seemed second nature to them both. Anara knew how to use them as well as Kes, and as long as they were physically close and their connection was open, Kes suspected her wife could use them as much as she herself could. As they went inside, Kes mentally asked Artem not to mention Anara’s healing to Lanam yet either. She wasn’t sure she agreed with it, but then Anara wasn’t sure either. She supposed that was a parent’s lot, to not be sure about much of anything but to try with all your heart anyway and hope your good intentions will make things turn out for the best, despite your fallibilities and insecurities.
As she and Artem filed inside after the others, Kes found her thoughts turning to the task ahead. Anara’s returned sight gave them more options, an added advantage. Her mental abilities always felt stronger, more focused, when Anara was with her. She knew they could use all of the advantages they could manage, smuggling Miteza, Thalla, and Vastu from the city and raiding the houses there for enough supplies to get them all across the desert. If Anara came with her, she and Anara were realizing, that could make a big difference. Lanam couldn’t, even were they able to give her sight as well. She was simply too young. So, her and Anara, and Artem to convince his mother to trust them. Tresit could be left to mind his sister, and she and Anara both agreed he could undoubtedly be trusted to not take any unneeded chances with her safety.
It was no small undertaking, and they knew… the death of Tulk, the disappearance of Lingen and Artem, coupled with her thefts and what she’d done to the man who’d tried to rape her when she’d escaped him… They’d be a fools to assume those things had gone unnoticed. The trouble was, neither she nor her wife had any real idea what sort of reaction, if any, might come. Guarding all the houses while the men of age went to work in the mines would be impractical, so Kes wasn’t too worried about an ambush when stealing water and food. But it wouldn’t be too far a leap to think that, if the leaders of the city did want to set some sort of ambush for them, they might well connect Kes to Miteza, which they could if Miteza or Thalla, or Lingen before his death for that matter, had told anyone about Vastu’s true parentage and Tresit’s threat to come back for him, and lie in wait at her home, keeping her, Thalla, and Vastu as hostages. She and Anara would be able to sense any ambush in advance of course, but would still be blocked from Miteza and her family, with no way but violence to get to them.
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KES did it,oh what a beautiful thing.LANAM being able to see .Still not trusting ARTEM,even TRESIT still looks at him as the enemy not to be trusted.KES being able to read his mind is a huge plus and he knows it.Thanks for update