#hive future

should i read hive mind? i'm so attached to earth girl that deviating to the other series seems like a betrayal. but give it straight to me and tell me whether i should get over this hangover of mine and start reading them.

On Lottery and on growing up - a Telepath webweave

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And until now i was focused on how they would be found, because you can't exactly send a telepath after them, right?

Have looked some at the search here already; would love to hear/see other people’s thoughts and if possible talk to people etc!

[Triple feature :)]

1.

I would have stayed in the apartment, if I hadn't heard her screaming. And I wouldn't've known, she wouldn't have told me, I—

I ran—I ran, of course I ran, she was screaming and she never screamed and she was my sister—and who cared that they had said stay put when—she was my sister.

Curled up and closed-eyed and carried, and people—Lucas, her boyfriend—speaking softly. I ran—I ran. When she looked at me, her face was twisted tight and pinched. She looked like—

Rafael caught up. He dragged me away.

Amber didn't scream anymore.

2.

Isn't it sung in the Hive-songs we give for schoolchildren to sing? Everyone has a job to do.

I wonder, sometimes, when my hands stray for my violin; my ears to half a tune left humming. I wonder…

Understand me. I don't want to be a telepath. They have their duties, and so do I. We all have our lots in life. Mine are heavy: I carry them well.

Still, I wonder, sometimes, when Amber's words wander. It isn't that I want to be a telepath: not at all.

But—once. Just once, I'd like to hear the Hive-mind sing.

3.

The snow was thick; the air bitter ice. It was no place for wonder. A snowstorm was no place for a telepath.

Still Amber ran out, face uplifted, hair running wild and whited. Adika took her by the arm.

"You need to go straight back inside, Amber." She pulled away.

Words were tossed with that chill wind: all watched, all watched. A slip of a girl, buried in the snowfall; shedding off ghosts like a silver skin. She sat. The snow made angel's wings.

The Carnival world was full of light. All watched: all watched.

October 2nd: Gunshot AND "it's not worth your life!"

forge is such a goober, i love him

i did end up getting really attached to atticus, and now i'm glad we've been seeing more of him in the later books in the series. i hope he continues to be a major player in the series!

wow, shanna is REALLY catty. i already disliked her after what she did during uhhhh....new year i think? idr it's been a while. but man, seeing the way she treated everyone in her corridor, i'm glad that forge and amber ended up seeing her true self after lottery

on that note...i'm like lowkey on the forge/atticus bandwagon now. i love buzz, but i never really cared for her relationship with forge either way, and i think the whole best friends to lovers thing would be fantastic for forge/atticus. atticus spending all their years on teen level with what he thought would always be an unrequited crush? him seeing shanna for who she really was and being bitter because even if it wasn't him, he thought forge deserved better!!! and then parting ways after lottery, expecting never to see him again, and then learning the truth about the telepaths and finding out that amber was one of them!! and that forge was on her strike team!!! i just think it would be cute. maybe au where atticus ends up on the medical team of amber's unit.

on another note, it was interesting to see the hints of amber's telepathy peeking through the mental block. there was the thing where she made the "lucky guess" about the bulkhead doors, but there was also later when she was in the park and she heard celeste crying even though the music was way too loud and atticus didn't hear anything.

But we know that true telepaths must be able to read them, because morton's unit rescued amber after she was kidnapped by elden as a child, and he definitely would have noticed if there was something off about her. But that could just have been because of how young she was

Would signs start showing up as amber got older?

Claire died when Amber was 15...I wonder what Amber's life would have been like if her dad was raised by his birth parents, and Amber got to know that whole side of the family.

Would Claire have known?

Would Amber have grown up as a pampered golden child?