Chapter 13: Life Without Milla
Hey, everyone who's reading both of my stories! Look at the dialogue right around the part where Milla kisses Sasha, then at the first couple sentences of Can and Can't Change. Then think about what she says she's going to be doing and read the rest of the paragraph in Can and Can't Change. Notice anything? I'm having a really fun time making all these stories go together! For everyone who isn't reading both stories, here's the next chapter.
It was odd. He felt almost the same as when he'd broken up with her, but without his psychic powers being depleted. He figured out then that, while love didn't make the world go around, it did make your psychic powers. Milla loved him; that meant that, while he was sad that she was gone, he was happy that she loved him. It was an odd feeling, and an even weirder knowledge.
So, if he was feeling both of those feelings, and his psychic skills weren't changing, what the heck was up with Professor Agent Clavd? He was somehow in denial of Sasha's telepathy abilities. He was incessantly testing Sasha's powers. Pairing him up with someone else to practice Sasha would have understood. This, however, was getting to be insane. On the last day, weeks later, by which everyone had to have a decent knowledge of telekinesis, Sasha got held back.
Of course, he asked Clavd why.
"Because I am just about sure that you are cheating. Plus, you can't send messages telepathically."
"I'm not cheating, and you should have let me learn broadcasting weeks ago."
"How do I know that you're speaking the truth? You're the one who magically acquired telepathy over a weekend."
"Because you won't even give me a fair test."
"Sasha, if I thought you capable of being 'fair,' I wouldn't have held you back."
"If I go to one of the teachers who doesn't know me, and they give me a passing grade, then can I move on?"
"Sure. But it isn't going to happen, Sasha, it just isn't." unless Secca convinces one of them to let him.
"You've been telling all of the teachers to keep me from passing!"
It's okay. I can get Selzinski by tonight. "Of course not, Sasha. What gave you that idea?"
"Umm… Nothing. I'm going to talk to Professor Agent Selzinski."
He knows.
"Okay. Good luck, Sasha. Not that it'll make a difference."
As he was walking towards the clairvoyance room (where Selzinski taught) he thought about what Clavd had been thinking. Why didn't he want Sasha to pass? Maybe he didn't want any competition. Some people were just mean like that.
Finally, he arrived with the room with a single bead instead of a name. If you used clairvoyance, it was supposed to have an image of Selzinski. Only a woman would think of something that clever, he thought.
Thank you. The response had an extremely slight Russian accent to it. It was the voice of Professor Agent Selzinski.
"So, Sasha Nein, I assume."
"How, uh…"
"Well, Clavd has been trying to get us to keep you from passing. Since it's the last day of testing, and I've never seen you before, I have to assume that you're the famed Sasha Nein, who would pose a good deal of competition to Professor Clavd. Ready for testing?"
"Sure."
They then proceeded. Professor Agent Selzinski tested all of his abilities. Finally, he was allowed to pull out of her mind.
"Well, I'm going to give you a passing grade, as long as you promise to learn broadcasting. Remember that I'm only letting you pass because you learned all that was possible for you to learn, but you still have to learn one more thing."
"Thank you, Professor Selzinski."
"Don't mention it. Clavd is stuck up and, frankly, I think he's a loon. But since he isn't by Psychonautic standards, I can't file anything against him."
Sasha smiled inwardly.
So… Out with Clavd, and I have to come up with the name of the name of the Levitation teacher. Who wants to bet that this is going to be one of those instances where, to add to the romance of the story, the loved one comes back?
If you did bet, then you're gonna lose your money because I'm trying to make this as realistic as possible. Plus I want to give Sasha a decent trial (Milla too, but you don't get to hear about her side of things)
So it's night, I'm upgrading in the morning, and I'm gonna start on Levitation tomorrow.