Preface
I woke up to the rain lightly pattering on my window pain. A strong wave rushed through my body, telling me that today was going to be a good day. I have waves similar to this one all the time. It's part of who I am.
I am a wave reader. I can read the waves of the upcoming future, and the waves of the people around me. One strange thing though, is every wave reader can read the waves of any other wave reader they know, no matter how far the distance.
Wave readers are born, not created. Most of us are born into families of a long line of wave readers. Others, like me, are born into the average human family. To be born into a human family is a disgrace because it is illegal for wave readers to be sexual, or even associate for that matter, with humans.
We don't have an extended life span or even a bigger role in the world than humans do. We just simply don't want to be discovered and found by the Trackers. For this reason the Federal won't allow us to have intimate relations with humans.
My great-grandfather, Charles Peters, was a Purebreed and when he married Idean Loftner, my great-grandmother who happened to be human, there wasn't another wave reader born into the family until me. Wave readers are rarely born from a human and another wave reader. That is another reason why relations with humans are forbidden.
Being Imbreed made it hard for me in the beginning, but luckily the Federal keeps track with all wave readers, especially those who decide to be involved with humans. This was how I was found. The Federal had been keeping their eye on all the offspring of Charles Peters, and they soon found that I was a wave reader. That was fairly easy considering all wave readers give off similar waves.
The Federal found me when I was seven, faked my death, took me away from my parents, and placed me in a foster home with Purebreeds. Al and Gene Moburry became my assigned foster parents. They had one child of their own, Brice, who was only two years older than me.
I am now fifteen, and go to a human school. Although wave readers go to human schools, we also have to be trained by older and more experienced wave readers on how to blend with humans. Also, our interaction with humans is limited, and questionable interactions must be consulted with the Federal for safety purposes.