The Queen smiled and thought, “We Gardner’s have always felt our love deeply. We know at our core; Love conquers all.”
Chapter 6
Anglo Gardner entered the map room and approached Matt and Angel. “It’s good to see the two of you again. I see you have been quite busy doing the Realm’s work.”
Angel looked at him and said, “We are going to delay our wedding, Your Grace.”
“Why would you want to do that?”
Matt looked at the Baron and smiled. He liked this Gardner. “We don’t want to delay; however, our oath leaves us no choice. There are millions of planets that have to be contacted because the time draws nigh that the invaders will come. We are needed to get the search organized and we cannot spare even one Searcher at this moment; much less two.”
Anglo Gardner looked at the two Searchers and saw their sincerity. He was impressed with these two who had placed their oaths ahead of their own desires. He almost ordered them to take the time to have their wedding but knew it would diminish the importance they felt for their commitment; it would take away from their joy. “We will honor your wish and delay. Please notify us at the first possible moment you can bless our home with your union.”
Angel smiled, “I suspect you will know as soon as we do, Your Grace.”
Anglo actually laughed out loud, “Ah, I see we have quick students here.” Anglo turned and looked at Sprig. “You have a few moments until you start bringing in your adolescents; perhaps you can discuss Searcher Gardner’s lineage with him.”
“Are you sure our Royal Couple would not like to do that?”
“Yes, I am. They have asked if you would tell him.”
Sprig leaned back and turned to Matt and Angel, “If you will come with me, perhaps the garden would be an appropriate place.”
Matt and Angel followed Sprig to the Garden where they had discovered their love for each other and they remembered that happy moment. Sprig observed them and felt their happiness. Once they had sat on a bench, Sprig thought, “How much do you know, Searcher?”
“I’m not sure if what I know is real; I think every subject of the Realm would like to think they are descended from a member of the Royal Family. I can actually see some of them in my mind. I see memories from hundreds of years ago but I don’t know if they are real or not.”
“They are real.” Matt and Angel were surprised. “Twelve hundred years ago the Captors left our universe. We were told about the coming invasion and I met with the Royal Family and discussed how we could possibly survive the might of the Eight Legs. Twig and I had discovered a means of reading an individual’s psychic power and we learned something that was amazing to us. When we used our device to read the power of the Royal family members, it registered half of the scale which was phenomenal. Twig had an idea that psychic abilities were genetic so we quietly made several trips to measure the psychic power of other family members.”
“Why did you do that,” Matt asked?
“To see if others in their families also possessed similar abilities. We scanned Thomas Gardner’s parents, Cassandra Gardner’s parents and sister, and Danielle’s parents.”
“What did you find out,” Angel asked?
“We discovered that both of Thomas’ parents and Danielle’s parents possessed a high level of psychic power but displayed no psychic abilities. The same was true of Cassandra’s parents but it was the scan we took of her older sister that shocked us.”
Matt looked at Sprig and knew that to shock an Algean was almost impossible.
“Cassandra Dodd, that’s right Angel, she and you have the same last name, was the most powerful psychic in the Royal Family; her psychic abilities and power were as strong as all the others combined. However, her sister moved our scanner up three quarters of our scale. She possessed psychic power more than fifty percent stronger than Cassandra but exhibited no psychic ability to use that power.”
Matt was confused, “I’ve never heard of Cassandra Gardner’s sister.”
“That is because she never had her power released. She was a latent psychic that had passed the power she possessed on to her four children and each of their scans showed they possessed latent psychic powers that were incrementally stronger than their mother. We learned that if the psychic power is not released in a person, then it grows in their descendents.”
Matt and Angel thought about what they had just heard and then Matt looked at Sprig with a serious expression, “You decided to produce a super psychic.”
Sprig’s leaves turned greener, “Did you reason that out or did you just know it?”
“It explains a lot about my memories. Those powers that are passed down to the next generation carry a certain amount of the previous one’s memories with it, right?”
“Yes, it does. Please remember that Danielle Ash and Cassandra Dodd only had limited psychic skill when they came into contact with the one that released their powers. Thomas Gardner had been born released and his powers were manifested from a very young age. It was his touch that released Danielle. Tommy and Rose Gardner were also released at birth and their powers were incrementally stronger than their parents. It was Tommy’s touching of Cassandra that released her psychic power. However, both Danielle and Cassandra had already been manifesting some psychic abilities so we believe that they had reached the extent of their psychic development. Their power would not have grown in their children.”
Matt looked confused, “I’m not sure I understand what you are explaining, Sprig.”
“Did you know that Rose’s along with Tommy and Cassandra’s children did not exhibit any psychic abilities? Rose had five children and Cassandra had seven and not one of them demonstrated any psychic abilities.”
“I didn’t know that.”
“Very few do. Once we scanned their children we understood what was taking place. All of their children registered more psychic power than their parents but had no way to use it; they were latent psychics.” Sprig looked at the two Searchers thinking about what they had just heard. “Think about psychic power in terms that we plants are comfortable with; think of it as a seed. The seed is planted in good soil and it starts to develop. The seed is passed to another generation and receives more nourishment and grows. Each new generation adds to the development until finally it reaches a point where it is fully developed and cannot grow any more in the vessel that holds it. Then it starts to sprout and the vessel begins to manifest some psychic skills. Once the right kind of food is delivered it bursts out in full bloom.”
“So the psychic power grows from generation to generation until it reaches full maturity in a person. It won’t come out until it is fully developed. Why didn’t Thomas Gardner need this right kind of food,” Angel asked.
“Because it happened to reach maturity with his birth; no one else was needed. His children, Rose and Tommy, were given their parents power fully developed, however, that only happens in the next generation. It does not pass beyond one generation.”
“That explains why Tommy and Rose’s children did not have psychic abilities,” Matt said.
“Exactly right,” Sprig paused and then continued, “It was at that point that Cassandra told us something that shocked all of us. She and Tommy were disappointed that their children did not share their abilities but Cassandra did possess a psychic skill that allowed her to have glimpses of the future; not possible futures like some psychics see but the actual future. She announced that one of her descendants was going to have psychic powers and abilities that dwarfed her skills and would be greater in their abilities than anyone could possibly imagine. We questioned her how far in the future this child would appear and she didn’t know. She did say that the child would have both bloodlines. When we asked her what other bloodline, she said she didn’t know. She just knew what she saw. We decided to try and make the event happen before the Eight Legs invaded.”
“What?” Matt looked at Angel and then back at Sprig, “how did you intend to make that happen?”
“Twig and I knew the two bloodlines; one was the Gardners and the other was the Dodds.”
“But Cassandra’s children all had Gardner genetics in their makeup.”
“Yes, but Cassandra’s sister’s children did not.”
