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Evasion

My name is Marya. I am a Pusher, and I am on the run. I have been my whole life. It was only just recently, however, that my reason for running changed. I am different – I always have been. For that I have been hunted.

I am second generation. It was my mother who had Push before me. She married a man without powers, but somehow I still ended up with her gift…or curse. She had lived in hiding ever since she had discovered that she was different. By then she had already married my father. Only a few months after I was born, Division found our family. They killed my father, and my mother and I barely escaped with our lives.

That was the beginning of it all. I have known no other life, other than to run and hide and, above all, trust no one.

Not surprisingly, Division caught up with us. I had only just discovered that I had inherited my mother's power and did not yet know how to control it. And then it was too late. Two agents came to our run-down, low-profile apartment. At least, they were the only ones we could see. We knew that others would be there, too, waiting.

I panicked as soon as I heard their knock, but my mother remained calm, at least outwardly.

"Marya," she told me, "you must go. I hate to leave you on your own, but what must happen must happen." She smiled sadly. "I'm sorry," she whispered, and knelt down and hugged me.

The knocking grew more persistent, and my mother let go of me and pushed me toward the window.

"Quickly!" she cried. "Remember this, if nothing else. Never use your power for evil, Marya. Please. I'm so proud of you." She kissed me on the forehead and looked at me for one long, last moment before I scrambled out the window.

The next thing I knew, multiple shots were fired, and I heard my mother's body thud to the floor. I ran.

That was years ago, I don't even want to know how many. The memory of that night has always stayed with me. I always wondered how the Division agents killed her so quickly. She didn't even seem to try. She didn't even tell me where to go before she died. I just ran aimlessly. I still don't remember where I went, or what happened. The next few months are a blur.

I remember the first day that I killed someone. No, I did not pull the trigger myself, at least not directly. Instead, I inserted the thought into the man's head. Like I said, I did not know how to harness my power and the results surprised me. It was then that I realized that I could survive, no matter what. I could mess with people's minds.

Time and time again, the same sort of thing happened. Sometimes it was a particularly weak Division agent, when occasionally they came across me. Sometimes it was someone who I felt endangered me – I lived in a rough part of town on my own. Sometimes I would just use my ability to steal so that I could eat. I knew no other life.

One day, though, I ran into trouble. A Division agent caught me unawares. He was a Pusher, like me. I could sense him trying to invade my mind. It didn't work. His eyes widened in alarm as my pupils dilated to the point where my eyes were completely black. I put the thought into his head to go, cross the street, that the car coming wouldn't hit him, but he had started leaving before I could complete the order. He escaped.

It was then that I realized something. When I was looking into his mind, I found something I hadn't expected. He was shocked that I could protect my mind. My mother had taught me to before she was killed, and I had always sort of assumed that everyone could do that. Apparently not.

By the next day, I had learned that Division was looking for me. As in, actively searching for me. I knew that once they started hunting me they would never stop. That is what happened with my mother. The only reason they hadn't started looking for me then was because they didn't realize that I had my mother's power.

It was soon after this that I found the others. "The others" being other people hunted by Division. I had always known that they existed, but it was only now that I discovered that they were practically right on my very doorstep. Quite literally, actually. I ran into them unexpectedly.

My life took on a whole other direction. Again.

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