The hivemind is conquering for me?

Sophia felt incredibly sick all of a sudden and requested. ”Onyx. Retract your ability, I am going to be sick.” She pressed her hands against her head as she was struggling to maintain her link to her under hive.

”Oops, sorry Soph, this lady tried to use Psionics first.” Onyx said before retracting her anti psionic field. Gabrielle felt her powerme back immediately, butnsidering the person in front of her seemed not a threat and was on a abbreviation name basis with Lady Sophia, they must be close.

Sophia smiled at Onyx after the dreaded ability faded and changed the subject. ”I saw the report on your mission. Bravo, even though it was incredibly risky.” Onyx said nothing as she walked into the room, walked over the middle table before sitting herself down in between Gabrielle and Sophia.

”Sophia, It’s rude not to introduce your guests to one another, apparently.” Onyx said as she flashed the woman next to her a smile.

”Ofurse, where are my manners? Gabrielle, this is Onyx, Apollo’s protector and bodyguard. Onyx, this is Gabrielle, an investigator from the royal palace, investigating Apollo.” Sophia said, causing the two women to stare at each other a moment.

Onyx narrowed her eyes curiously at the woman in front of her and slowly said her name. ”Gabrielle... Why does that sound familiar to me?” Onyx thought for a moment before shrugging her shoulders.

”Nice to meet you, so. What do you want to know about my dear Apollo? I am a lot more open than this blonde bimbo, so ask away.” Onyx said as she put her heeled boots up on the table, ignoring the look of the insulted Sophia.

Gabrielle raised her eyebrow at the current dynamic. Sophia was definitely not in charge of the nemer. Perhaps sheuld wriggle some juicy details about her son out of this woman. First though, a personal question needed answering.

”Your power. Do you have an anti Psionic field?” Gabrielle asked, causing Onyx to shake her head. ”Wrong wording friend. Anti Psionics are dangerous, no, I have a Psionic disruption field. Not too dissimilar to what I felt manifest from you. Yours felt like there was a ramp up in the power of the fieldrrect? Or andition? Something like an emotion I would take it... Mine is just ready to go from the start. That is why I was able to suppress yours and keep mine active.”

Gabrielle was surprised how well the woman deduced how her power worked and was satisfied with the answer she had received. ’This woman seems much moreoperative in talking.’ She thought to herself. ’And she is my baby’s bodyguard if what Sophia said was true.’

”I see, thank you for the clarification. Now since you seem to be joining my interview, I think I should catch you up. Sophia has told me the truth behind Archon Apollo’s past, how he developed his Psionic abilities early and that his tutor is a powerful woman named Jewel. I also know about his genetic modifications and that he belongs to some unknown faction in the empire’s outer regions.”

Onyx threw Sophia a disguised hostile look, which Sophia understood the real reasoning behind. In a snd, she relayed every single bit of information she had given to the women in front of her and before she even finished, Onyx startedoking with oil.

”What have you told her about the Order Sophia? You know what happens to those that spill secrets.” Sophia also began to play her part and looked away guiltily. Gabrielle picked up on this and needed to press further.

She needed to know whether or not this order was dangerous. She can’t have her baby among dangerous people. What if he gets hurt! ”Lady Onyx, I havennections to the Royal family. I have to report unknown seemingly powerful organisations back in case they are a threat. However, if you shed some light on what this organisation is about and how Archon Apollo is linked to it, I might be able to waive off that need.”

Onyx removed her feet from the table and crossed her legs, taking a moment as if in thought. ”Ok. Why not? Sophia, tell a soul I blabbed and I will torture you.” She ’threatened’ before turning back to Gabrielle.

”First before I explain. No need for Lady titles with me, just Onyx. Now, the order is in essence a group of Psionic individuals that haveme together to spread knowledge to one another outside of your various places of learning. We have no qualms with royalty, we don’t think about them and we aren’t vying for any territory. We have two planets that are actually ours in the outer rim and we are fine with that. Now as for Apollo, my ward. He is under the tutelage of Jewel. The leader of the order. A very old, very powerful Psionic wielder. Apollo is not technically a member of the order as Jewel has made him her partner, but he is treated equally in the order all the same.”

The information regarding allective of Psionic users fell into one ear and out of the other. What remained however was. ”So you mean to tell me this Jewel has used her strength toerce Archon Apollo into sexual relations? That is highly unethical.” She said calmly, but was once again seething at the prospect of her son being used by all these skanks.

Onyx picked up a whiff of anger from the fortified mind of the woman in front of her and grew curious. ”Why do you care about the engagements of an ’insignificant’ Archon? He was never forced by the way, everything wasnsensual. Now, do you have any other questions for me and Sophia? I have been away for a few weeks and would enjoy a nice rest.”

Gabrielle evaded the first question smoothly as she began asking Onyx questions such as where did sheme from, her relationship to Apollo, she became irritated when Onyx began describing in great detail how Apollo felt inside of her. Her other duties to Apollo and why she wasn’t with Apollo right now.

After writing everything into her ’report’ she nodded happily. It did seem these women knew more about her son than the Hyllus’ and she had more information about how wonderful he truly was.

”Thank you both for youroperation with my investigation. If you have any other information you want to tell me in the future, though I doubt you will, you can get myntact information from Lady Kathrine.”

The three women then stood up and she proceeded to shake hands with Sophia before moving onto Onyx. As her palmnnected with Onyx’s she had an incredibly disturbing instinct. She did not trust the sun kissed woman in front of her, nor her brown- Green? Eyes. She felt like she was in front of a predator in sheep’s clothing.

After pulling her hand away, Gabrielle acting like nothing was different as she smiled before turning around and leaving the room. Once she was gone, the fake niceness on Sophia and Onyx’s faces dropped as Sophia asked.

”Did you get anything on her?” Onyx shook her head. ”No, her mind was heavily trained to detect probing. She would have known if I began peaking. What about you? Do you have anything on the woman?” She asked Sophia.

”Not much, she seems like a ghost. All I have is what Kathrine has told us. That she works for an organisation called Olympus and she is incredibly powerful for a human… Speaking of, do you think all the incredibly powerful humans have purple hair by the way? I was informed a hair mutation can be random, but Apollo’s origin aside, she was definitely a very powerful human, more powerful than I am anyway, and her hair was also purple.”

Onyx then replied to Sophia. ”No, from what I understand it is actually random. I saw one purple haired individual while I was waiting for my ambush. I saw that mutation wise in humans on that planet, white and green were the most prevalent among the Psionic beings I witnessed.”

Onyx then paused, realising what else Sophia just said. ”Wait, what was that about Kathrine? Why is she telling you secrets about her allies?” Sophia looked at Onyxnfused for a moment. ”Wait, you don’t know? I thought you didnsidering Kathrine’s capabilities.”

Onyx’s eyes started glowing green. She was out of the loop and she had a feeling it was to do with her universe. She did not like not knowing things about her King. Sophia stopped the thought of teasing Onyx with a delayed reveal and just spurted out the information.

”Kathrine has bme Apollo’s slave through a Psionic ability Apollo manifested. Kathrine can speak to him and enter his Mindspace from here, though her mind seems to leave her body entirely when she does, rendering hermatose. She has met Jewel and made her intention known that she is willing to betray her species for Apollo.”

Sophia watched as an anger began to rise up in Onyx, her eyes blazing with green energy before suddenly, subverting expectations through a hissy fit.

”What! That is so unfair! I am Apollo’s slave and I can’t do that! Where is she! I need to learn how tommune with my beloved. I need to be inside themfort of his Mindspace once more!”