PDF Teleporter (a Hyllis Family story #2)
Description Teleporter (a Hyllis Family story #2)
Post-Apocalyptic Fiction“Teleporter” is the second in a series of stories featuring the Hyllis family who tend to inherit “talents.” The stories are set after a plague induced apocalypse which resulted in the collapse of civilization and reduced mankind back to iron and horsepower. Eva Hyllis and her ancestors became healers because they could feel the insides of their patients with their talents. This helps them diagnose the underlying causes of many illnesses. Having made a diagnosis, unfortunately, there is often not all that much that they can do to treat the problem. Tarc Hyllis, Eva’s son, has telekinesis so that he can “push” objects with his mind as well as being able to feel inside of people. This gives him the ability to diagnose bleeding inside someone and then stop that bleeding by applying pressure inside the patient. Now Tarc’s sister Daussie proves to be able to teleport small objects. She can remove a gallstone! This is a huge help to patients with gallbladder disease. Can she do more? Unfortunately, the Hyllises have to leave their home in Walterston. Traveling the roads in their day and age can be dangerous. Will their talents also let them protect themselves?ExcerptPROLOGUEThat night, as the Hyllises got ready for bed, Tarc helped Daussie move her stuff out of his room and back into hers. They didn’t talk much, but what they did have to say was pleasant. That was something that’d never happened before. Tarc found it bizarre that such a horrible series of events could’ve been the spark that made him realize how important his family was to him. Even the sister he’d always thought he despised. As he turned to leave her room, he had a thought. Looking back at her he asked, “Dauss? Where’s the sun?” She pointed almost straight down through the floor. And right at the sun.Back in his room Tarc lay in his bed staring at the ceiling. He desperately wanted to wake up his mother and father to tell them Daussie knew where the sun was. On the other hand, he supposed they wouldn’t be very happy to be awakened, especially if it turned out that sensing the position of the sun didn’t necessarily mean that Daussie had any other talent. Certainly, there was no great need to know about her talent, if she had it, before morning. As he tossed and turned, he worried. What if Daussie’s talent’s stronger than mine? He pictured her with a talent strong enough to pick men up and throw them across the room. Reassuring, in the sense that his sister would then be able to protect herself from unwanted attention. Embarrassing though, since he’d felt so proud of how much stronger his own talent was than his parents’. In the face of the kind of invincible power he suddenly pictured his sister wielding, his own ability to guide arrows or knives would seem meager. Or, what if she could only tell where the sun was? During the process of trying to evaluate the presence or absence of other talent, she was sure to realize something must be going on. As their mother had pointed out to Tarc many times, Daussie’d be absolutely crushed if she didn’t have any talent. Daussie desperately wanted to be a healer. If she were to be relegated to simply having a healer’s expertise… To nothing more than any ordinary person could be taught…On several occasions Tarc had already noticed Daussie knew more about medicine than he did. Now he lay, worrying that Daussie would take over the role Eva had in Tarc’s life. She’d be the person who knew what to do for patients, while Tarc acted as no more than her dumb brother with the talent to push or pull on structures inside the body as she directed…