Free Rise of the Death Walkers (The Circle of Heritage Saga) by Lawrence Nason Jr. Page A

in her. And she has proven to be the only compatible female we have found. This time we did not have to tamper with her mind at all like we had to for that useless piece of garbage that sired Jason. Thank God that he was so unreliable as a family man that he left shortly after the twins were born.”
    “You are certain about this Katie?” You know how much the future of this is dependent on Jason and any of the children that come from his line in the future generations.” Mimi washed dishes absent mindedly. She was so distracted she had three towels drying dishes at the same time as she was manually doing it with her own hands.
    I cleared my voice nodding in the direction of the towels beside her. She turned bright red at her lack of composure. The towels were returned to the drying spindle and the dishes to the proper place in the cupboard.
    “I am as certain of Katie as your father was of Angela’s mate. My family has handled the primary line of descendants for one hundred generations now and we have not slipped once. You know the chosen one was to be seen at the end of a five generation female cycle and was to bare the mark of Goltar. Jason has this mark and is the first male in six generations. Everything fits. We just have to carefully nurture him while keeping up the vigilance we have been keeping to protect the human race from the Soul Extractors.”
    Mimi sighed and looked at me. “Sam, he is too young and since this beating he has received his mental lines are all twisted. There was only so much I could do while he was in that hospital. He needs to be here with us for me to be able to treat him properly.” She tossed her towel on the counter in aggravation.
    “He needed time with Katie, Mimi, I sensed that in him when I was driving him to the celebration. Little do our cousins know that the honor they bestowed upon him is but a fraction of the honor he will earn a few Earth years from now. When The Plan was laid out on the home world after our discovery of The Origan, the best mentalists of that time were involved in the research. Since then, every generation has been checked to make sure they are following the course of The Plan and they made the minute changes that were required to lead us where we are now.” I shook my head at Mimi and said. “Jason needs time to build his bond with Katie before we tell him everything. It's going to be hard enough to tell him that his mother was brutally murdered by that worthless piece of garbage she was with and that his sister lost her mind as a result of killing him to protect her siblings and herself from that deranged man.”
    “About Jenna,” Mimi started softly “I need to go to her and undo the damage that the treatments drugs are doing to her mind. I hate keeping her detached from the full capabilities that her mind has.”
    “The Plan calls for Jason to be the one who restores her mind. Our job is to make sure they don’t damage it beyond the capabilities we have to repairing it.” I gave heavy sigh.
    “Next weekend Jason will be at home and you can begin his treatment.” There is so much depended on him reaching his full capabilities soon. The frequent attacks on the human kind natural to this planet had been growing proportionally in the past twenty Earth years and it was beginning to be more difficult to contain the Soul Extractors. The question still loomed in my mind ‘Can we trust the culmination of twelve-hundred years of selective breeding to the hands of a now fifteen Earth year old boy who had not even begun to tap the true potential of his mind.
     
    After I changed from my trunks to my street clothing, we went out to Katie’s car and drove to the City Hall. The City Hall was located on Main Street in Massena across from the movie theater. I turned to Katie and asked. “They have the car here?”
    “Well,” she said cheerfully “It’s not exactly a car it’s more like a van only smaller. It’s specially made with disabled people in