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She smiled. “I did. And the first sighting of the Horseman was in Uradda and jumping over the wall. After that, I was everywhere.”
Revakka blinked. “So, you are a team member?”
“No. Not anymore. I have had a forced retirement. I still don’t know if my activity is in here.” She patted her head. “If not, I am just an ex-active with a weird immune system and good hair.”
“So, you can stay here?”
“Sure. The only people who know I survived are here and my sister and her fiancé. If we drop the right hint, I might be legally dead.” She smiled. “It means I will have to find a job as I am used to earning my keep.”
Revakka cocked her head. “How good are you with kids?”
“Pretty good. Why?”
“We are always in need of nursery help that can touch their toes.”
Xeva frowned. “I don’t understand.”
Leaf smiled and explained that the ladies who worked with the babies tended to be frequently pregnant themselves. Hence being unable to touch their toes.
Jeron leaned in and whispered, “She is trying to give you baby rabies.”
Xeva jolted. “They are contagious?” She knew the expression on her face was appalled. How were the island people built?
He laughed. “Not in the direct sense, but there is a clustering effect.”
“Oh. Right.” She had heard about the team members having babies. Remark’s mate had a bunch in incubators.
He smiled. “We can also go and get you a new com tomorrow. Yours burned out for long-range transmission when your heart stopped.”
“Oh. Right.”
“The heartbeat monitor is a subsystem. I have been taking your pulse information to my unit and sending it on to your sister.”
“Thank you. She worries, and when she gets worried, bad things happen.”
Revakka smiled. “You have a sister?”
“I do. She’s a little older than me.” She smiled.
“Did you grow up together?”
Xeva paused. “No. We didn’t. She was off on assignments, and we only saw each other when they had her locked up.”
Revakka gasped. “What?”
She went for bald truth. It was better that she get it out now. “We are from Uradda. The government used actives in whatever manner was possible. Our bodies weren’t ours; our skills weren’t ours. The higher-strength actives were locked in a government facility when they weren’t being used for military purposes.” She looked around. “I escaped when I was seventeen with some help from Nelith and those who were trying to work against Uradda. I came out, was trained to team and agent level, and was then put to work for my keep.”
The table was quiet. Jeron held her hand and squeezed it.
Apple smiled sadly. “So, you don’t know how to swim or surf or anything.”
“No. I am trying to learn, but it is all very different.”
Revakka said, “So, you were confined as well?”
“Yes. I was an experiment, and I needed to be kept under control in case I activated in the same manner as my progenitor.” She smiled. “I didn’t, and I did. We are both projecting telekinetics. It takes different forms for both of us.”
Revakka blinked. “Progenitor?”
