Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 184, Tuesday
July 4th, 2017
Chapter Two: Testing
Every tutor
Kathy’s parents brought in to teach her manifested predictable and disturbing
patterns. Tutors, psychologists, scholars, her parents contracted with people
inside and outside of the educational system; scientists, doctors, specialists
in human behavior.
They
exhausted their resources doing it.
Without exception the behaviors and interactions that each
of them had with Kathy filled her parents with dread, and Kathy with a cynical
unease.
At first they were delighted. Would be welcoming in their
initial encounters, and she would tease them with the things they wanted to
know.
They would come back to Kathy’s parents at the end of the
day, glassy eyed, and wondering at the genius of their child, going on and on
about her potential, and her unique gifts
As the days went on they became fearful, scared. Those
same gifts that had delighted them just days earlier, unnerved them with
continuing exposure.
If Kathy wanted to get rid of them, she would attack
them. She would misuse her psychic gifts by exploiting their fears and
weaknesses, by exposing their deepest secrets.
This drove most of them away.
Those who stayed did so either because they were stalwart
characters, or because they were shameless, seeing in Kathy someone who they
could build a career on.
They tested her, and wrote about her.
The shameless sought to use her for their own benefit,
believing she would be a source of fame and wealth.
The altruistic among them were convinced that the fate of
the world hinged on learning her secrets.
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