After Kain left Sylvia's tent, he curiously looked at his hands. How come he felt the two streams coming in from both Talia and Elisha, but instead of staying in his body, the stream from Elisha went through his body and into Talia, and the stream from Talia went through to Elisha? Indeed, their experience seemed different from Jake's?
Didn't Jake get really sleepy and his stream stayed inside me and was absorbed by me? I remember him also saying that he felt weaker, although I can't judge how much weaker he got since I didn't spend enough time with him, nor did I really have an accurate measure on how strong he is in the first place.
The key difference must be that Jake was by himself and I was so much weaker at the time so my cells got greedy and kept the stream. Now, after absorbing the squealer and the non-evolved zombies, my cells didn't seem as interested in two streams from people that were weaker than me?
Hmm, it could also be that the two of them touched my hands at approximately the same time so it was a transfer or transplantation of powers like Sylvia had theorized? So, one hand contact was absorption and two hand simultaneous contact was transferring? Also, Talia and Elisha both seemed to moan out in pleasure as well, just like I did.
Kain shook his head and knew that there was not enough sample size to really determine which of his theories was correct. He really had to talk to the two girls as well and ask them a few questions to really figure out what was going on.
Kain put aside his thoughts on the matter and started to earnestly start looking for Barton and Desmond. He really hoped to see them here somewhere, but he had a sinking feeling that they weren't here, because if they were, he probably would have seen them already.
His conjectures proved to be correct as he moved through the large tent structures and saw that none of them had either Barton or Desmond.
He was now officially worried for the two and was going to have a talk with Sylvia, when he suddenly saw the two girls from earlier quick walking towards him. He was kind of curious why Sylvia was talking to them separately and he determined to ask them. As they got close enough, they both greeted: "Master!"
A man and a woman in their vicinity that heard the greeting looked at the two beautiful girls. They saw how bright and happy the two girls looked while yelling out such a greeting. They then turned their gazes to Kain, with one filled with disdain from the woman, and one filled with extreme jealousy from the man.
Kain noticed their gazes and hurriedly shooshed the two girls as he motioned them to follow him to an area devoid of other people.
He then turned to them and said, "I thought I told you two not to call me master earlier. Those strangers earlier looked at me with such gazes, but at least I can walk away from them. However, if my friends hear you call me that, they will think I am an absolute pervert and they will not let me hear the end of it. At least, one of them won't for sure. Now, please just call me Kain."
The two girls looked at each other with a knowing glance, before Talia said, "But master, we are worried about Lady Sylvia. She gave us boundaries earlier in our discussion when you left the tent. You know how she is with rules. If we don't call you master, and she somehow finds out…we are afraid she may cancel our contract with you and institute the original punishment of banishment…"
What the two girls mentioned was a little bit of stretching the truth, because Sylvia did indeed give them boundaries to follow, but not in terms of calling him master. The two of them were banking on the fact that Kain had slight fear of Sylvia as well.
Indeed, as soon as the two girls mentioned Sylvia and about her setting boundaries, he didn't even doubt the two anymore. His heartbeat even picked up slightly as he compromised and said, "Okay, then I'll let you two call me master in private, but when we are around others please just call me by my name?"
"Yes, master!" the two said in unison. At the same time, they clenched their fists in victory. Talia looked at Elisha in admiration as everything they discussed earlier came to fruition as Elisha had predicted. Talia thought to herself silently, "Big sister is so smart! If I follow her, maybe I really can win master's heart someday."
Meanwhile, Elisha smiled as she had accurately read her master like an open book. She admired Lady Sylvia and her ability to wrap her master around her finger so completely. It already seemed like her master was a well-trained dog, even without Lady Silvia's presence. Someday, would she also have her master wrapped around her fingers?
She didn't doubt this much because she had a whole different set of tools to work with compared to Lady Sylvia. Would Lady Sylvia be willing to get down and dirty with her master the way she was 100% committed to doing? Elisha's competitive fires burned brightly in her eyes as she mentally went through her future plans.
"I actually wanted to ask you two a question about what happened earlier. Did either of you feel tired after grabbing my hand?"
The two girls thought about the experience. Talia replied, "At first I felt something draining out of me, but then something else came back and I felt…really good."
"I felt the same. In fact, I didn't mind the draining feeling at all as it was completely trumped by the…pleasure you gave me, master." said Elisha.
"Can the two of you tell me what your abilities are?" asked Kain.
"Master, my ability is earth power." answered Talia.
"Master, my ability is force manipulation and magnification." answered Elisha.
Both Kain and Elisha looked at Talia with shock. Wasn't everyone with earth power highly valued by the Council?
"Talia, is it ok if you can show me your power?" asked Kain.
"Of course, master," After replying, Talia motioned with her hand and a small vibration occurred on the ground in front of her. It slowly increased in scale as the ground shook and separated in wave like patterns.
"Master, I don't know why, but before I was able to affect twice as much of an area. My power feels a little different than before. There seems to be something else alongside my power."
As Talia finished her sentence, all of a sudden, the vibrations became thunderous shaking and the earth cracked and blasted a whole straight into the ground. Talia ceased her ability in shock, and the three of them looked down the pitch-black hole. Kain picked up a nearby rock and dropped it down the hole, and they only heard a sound after 3 full seconds had passed.
"Is that considered weak?" asked Kain.
Talia shook her head and said, "Master, I have never been able to pierce the ground like that. Before, I was only able to affect the surface of the earth. I may have been able to part the earth to a certain depth, but never to such a deep hole such as this."
Kain had a feeling he knew what was going on as he turned to Elisha and asked, "Can you describe what your power does?"
"My ability allows me to negate or magnify any force. At the same time, I can apply the magnification of force in certain directions, leading my attacks to being force projections." replied Elisha.
Kain nodded his head as he pointed at the ground and asked, "Elisha, try to shake the ground like Talia did."
"Master, I'm confused. I don't have earth power…" replied Elisha, who seemed to be at a loss.
"I have a feeling you have it now." said Kain.
Elisha didn't believe Kain, but nonetheless attempted to will the earth to move. Nothing happened at first, but slowly, the earth started to shake and vibrations appeared. Both Talia and Elisha's mouths dropped open, and in her shock, Elisha stopped and the ground returned to stillness.
They turned their gazes to Kain as he said, "Congratulations to the both of you. The two of you may be the world's first dual ability users."