The Brotherhood: Kara: Meeting Daniel (part 2)

[k_a_webb]

Part 1

If Kara had been in her human form she would have smiled at the way Daniel was looking at her. With a movement of his hand he sent off the second boy, the one she didn’t yet have a name for, and he went running off towards the house, which she hoped was to get clothes for her. She used the time to study Daniel, not quite able to believe he really was Mim’s brother, but then she had known Mim when they were all children, and Daniel was an adult. Even Mim would look different, but the only thing that made Kara think that he really was her old friend’s brother was the look in his eyes. He had a mind power, that much was obvious, because he had that slight madness that most people with mind powers seemed to have.

‘What’s he like?’ she asked Miles, who, thankfully, didn’t show any sign that she was talking to him.

‘Daniel’s had it hard. His sister disappeared when she was six and no one knows what happened to her, he realised he had powers when he was about the same age as Miriam was when she disappeared, and ever since then he’s been waiting for someone like you to turn up. It wasn’t difficult for him to come to the conclusion that she had been a shifter, because his parents shooed an animal out of the house the same day she disappeared, so when he worked out what he could do it made the most sense that she had also had powers. The only reason he stayed with them for as long as he did was because he didn’t have anywhere else to go, but he made the decision to walk away when he was sixteen and he hasn’t been back, as he blames them for Miriam’s disappearance.’

‘Mim did too.’ Kara wished she could sigh. ‘She never forgave her parents for what they did and she felt it was their fault she ended up working with Leonard. I remember the conversation we had just before… but that’s something I should tell Daniel, not you, although you would understand just as well as he will. Having a mind power is never easy.’

‘To begin with I thought I was going mad. I could hear all these voices in my mind and I didn’t know where they were coming from. For the first three days I stayed home, telling Mum I had a migraine, which was something she could understand, while I tried to work out what had happened to me. Even though it took me months to learn to work with my abilities I knew after a day of silence that I was telepathic. The sounds didn’t start again until my parents and sister returned home, although there had been this low rumbling sound in the back of my head that I later realised was the sound of people who were far away speaking.’

‘I’m glad I’m not telepathic. Turning into an animal wasn’t easier, as such, it’s just not as hard to control once you get the hang of things.’

Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.