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"Why?" said Emiliana. "Didn't you say that you needed to study the anomalous link between us?"

"Yes," said Gohvis. "And once that study is complete, I will not have much reason to keep you here."

She could hardly believe it. He was saying it so casually, like it was the most normal thing in the world to return a kidnapped prisoner to their family.

Well, maybe to him, it was.

"However," said Gohvis, "that will most likely be a very long time from now. Your mutations must grow significantly more before the link between us becomes clearer to me."

Ah...

That made sense. It was only after her power had manifested in the first place that she began seeing those "visions" of Gohvis. And that would also explain why he would be interested in assisting her in her training, as well.

A part of her had thought that his motivation in that respect could only have been empathy, that he must have had a humane side to him. But this made sense, too. Much more so, in fact.

It was scholarly interest.

Yes.

She shouldn't get it twisted, Emiliana thought.

And that thought spurred another into her mind.

She was reminded of the conversation she'd had with Gohvis regarding "the problem of humanity."

In it, Gohvis had described his worldview to her, at least in part, and explained his feelings regarding the rest of Abolish.

And it had all... mostly made sense to her, but there was one thing that had been bothering her, one thing that she had been trying to work through and find answers for on her own--or if not answers, then at least new questions through which to approach the same subject.

And she had the entire Library at her disposal. So in addition to all of her other reading, she had also been trying to find a text that addressed the issues that Gohvis had expressed to her. She just wanted something that could help clarify and support her own feelings.