Talent 03 - Pegasus in Flight

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the astronauts who suffered from sporadic ' 'bright spots,''

temporarily diagnosed as cerebral or retinal malfunction,

was inadvertenfly discovered when the device was used

to monitor a head injury in an intensive-care unit of Jer-

hattan. The patient, Henry Darrow, was a self-styled

clairvoyant with an astonishing percentage of accurate

"guesses." hi his case, as the device monitored his brain

patterns, it also registered the discharge of unusual elec-

trical energy as he experienced a clairvoyant episode. For

the first time there was scientific proof of extrasensory

perception.

Henry Darrow recovered from his concussion to

found the first Center for Parapsychics in Jerhattan and

to formulate the ethical and moral premises that would

grant those with valid, and demonstrable, psionic tal-

ents certain privileges and responsibilities in a society

basically skeptical, hostile, or overtly paranoid about

such abilities.

Extrasensory perception--or Talent, as it came to be

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paths, people who could send their thoughts but not

receive those of others, and people who could receive

thoughts but not send. Others were empaths, able to

adjust immediately to the moods of those around them,

sometimes quite unconsciously. Telempaths could sense

and react to extreme or more distant emotions; some of

these were able to redirect emotion, by broadcasting

other emotions or by neutralizing the negative--such

Talents proved to be invaluable in crowd control, for

they could keep a throng from turning into a senseless

mob. But the most valuable of the telepaths were those

who could both receive and broadcast thought, speaking

to other minds anywhere in the world.

Telekinetics-- Talents who could move physical ob-

jects by sheer mental power--were also invaluable, their

abilities ranging from lifting heavy machinery to ma-

nipulating on micro levels.

Finders also had affinities--some could locate people

or animals, while others were able to sense inanimate

objects--and their abilities could vary greatly in range.

Talent came in many forms and guises, and not all

of the viable types had, as yet, been recognized. The

various centers, worldwide, constantly searched for the

less dramatic gifts because the need had now far out-

stripped the supply. For those potential few, the train-

ing was arduous, and the rewards did not always

compensate for the unswerving dedication required by

their taxing positions.

And yet to be found Talented became the aspiration

of many, and the triumph of few.

They have been at a great feast of

languages, and stolen the scraps.

--William Shakespeare.

ployment board for a day's work, the mothers with their

handicapped kids making their way to the Rehab cen-

ters, and the legal children on their way to the Linear's

physical-training facility.

Cautiously she took another look, to see what the

PHOs were setting up on their tables: vials and the big

compressed-air bottles that operated the hyposprays. She

withdrew, having seen enough to recognize another

wholesale vaccination effort. Strange, she hadn't heard

of any new 'mune plagues. To give them their due,

PHO was swifter than rumor to avert disaster.

Rapidly Tiria ran through her head her current list of

those mothers of illegal children whom she should in-

form: first, because they would pay her for warning

them to hide the kids; second, because those who could

afford to would pay her for stealing whatever vaccine

was being administered. She counted on her fingers:

Elpidia, certainly; the old bouzma. Pilau; Bilala, and

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theastronautswhosufferedfromsporadic'brightspots,'temporarilydiagnosedascerebralorretinalmalfunction,wasinadvertenflydiscoveredwhenthedevicewasusedtomonitoraheadinjuryinanintensive-careunitofJer-hattan.Thepatient,HenryDarrow,wasaself-styledclairvoyantwithanastonishingpercentageofaccurate"guesses."...

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