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skirts. She gathered Magnus to her, but he kept his face
toward his father, terror in his eyes, trembling, but deter-
mined to protect.

Rod stared at them, all united against him, ready to pick

him up with their magic and hurl him into his grave. His
eyes narrowed, pinning them with his glare; then his eyes
lost focus as he reached down inside himselfЧdeep down,
reaching across an abyssЧto the psi powers that had lain
so long dormant, but which had been awakened by the
projective telepathy of Lord Kem, in another universe, one
in which magic worked. His powers weren't as readily ac-
cessible as his family's; he couldn't work magic just by
willing it, as easily as thinking, but once he'd drawn them
up, his were at least as great as theirs. He called those
powers up now, feeling their strength build within him.
"Mother," came Magnus's voice, across a huge void,

"we must..."

"Nay!" Gwen said fiercely. "He is thy father, whom thou

dost loveЧwhen this fit's not on him."

What did that mean! The powers paused in their build-
ing...

A smaller figure entered his blurred field of vision, to

the side and a little in front of the family group, gazing up
at him, head tilted to the sideЧthree-year-old Gregory.

"Daddy is'n' there," he stated.

That hit Rod like a bucketful of cold water; the complete,

calm, sanity of the child's toneЧso open, so reasonableЧ
and the totally alien quality of the words. His eyes focused

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in a stare at his youngest son, and fear hollowed his vitalsЧ
fear, and a different anger under it; anger at the futurians
who had kidnapped him and the rest of his family away
from this child while Gregory was still a baby. The deser-
tion, Rod feared, had totally warped the boy's personality,
making him quiet, indrawn, brooding, and sometimes, even
weird. His gaze welded to Gregory's face, his fear for Gregory