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    Water and Power
    Water and Power
    Water and Power
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    Water and Power

    By Viola Grace

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    Mora was identified to the Resicor government as a talent, and on the way to the interview that would lock her up, she was diverted and hidden in the mountains.

    After a year on her own, she was captured and her time in service to the Resicor government began, deep underground where the public would never know.

    Tranoth was assigned by the Citadel to break her free, but as a technician, he had to go where he was sent. By chance, he ended up with her on two occasions, and it was enough time to set things in place for the breakout.

    By the time they are able to move, she has been alone for six years with only minimal contact by other beings. Her mind is fragile but she is determined. If they give her a place to run and hide, they will have to catch up to her because she is going.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateJul 3, 2014
    ISBN9781771119344
    Water and Power
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    Viola Grace

    Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.

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      Water and Power - Viola Grace

      Enslaved by her own people, she breaks free and joins the Citadel in her capacity as a water elemental. Her destiny is fluid.

      Mora was identified to the Resicor government as a talent, and on the way to the interview that would lock her up, she was diverted and hidden in the mountains.

      After a year on her own, she was captured and her time in service to the Resicor government began, deep underground where the public would never know.

      Tranoth was assigned by the Citadel to break her free, but as a technician, he had to go where he was sent. By chance, he ended up with her on two occasions, and it was enough time to set things in place for the breakout.

      By the time they are able to move, she has been alone for six years with only minimal contact by other beings. Her mind is fragile but she is determined. If they give her a place to run and hide, they will have to catch up to her because she is going.

      The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

      Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Water and Power

      Copyright © 2014 Viola Grace

      ISBN: 978-1-77111-934-4

      Cover art by Martine Jadin

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

      Published by Devine Destinies

      An imprint of eXtasy Books

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      Water and Power

      Tales of the Citadel Book 29

      By

      Viola Grace

      Chapter One

      Morakil Esterhart clutched her purse as she walked toward the screening centre. Her world had become a strange and dangerous place to live in, and it was getting worse.

      Resicor was turning into a world of darkness and paranoia, and Mora was afraid that she was about to become its next victim.

      A woman came up next to her and said quietly, Do you want to pass this interview?

      Mora tried to turn but the voice said, Don’t look. Do you want to pass this interview?

      Mora nodded.

      Good. Just relax.

      A hand gripped her wrist and held tight for a moment. A second later, they were in the midst of a pushing and jostling crowd. A cloak was draped over her head and shoulders and hands guided her out of the crowd and away from the screening centre.

      Mora glanced back, and she bit her lip as she saw herself stepping toward the centre with a nervous stride. She kept her head down and walked with the stranger who had his arm around her.

      When they got around the corner, a transport was waiting for her. The man behind the wheel said, We can take you home or to the mountains. Your choice. Once you are out there, you will be on your own.

      So, I am escaping the dome and going to the hills instead?

      Your mind and body will be free. Consider that our gift to you. The man nodded to his companion, and they chuckled together.

      Mora sat back. This was going to be no life for a jeweller, but she supposed that living free was a better option than living in confinement. Idly, she wondered how the fake her was doing at the interview.

      * * * *

      The double was sitting in the interview room with two people glaring at her from across the table. In the corner was an empath who was monitoring her mind.

      So, despite your neighbour complaining about your farm having water during the drought, you are claiming that you had nothing to do with it?

      Fake Mora smiled nervously, keeping the copied memories and personality in front of her own. I don’t know why the family farm has more water than my neighbours. We might be on a different water table. I don’t involve myself with the farm at all. I am a jeweller.

      Fake Mora felt the pressure on her mind, and she showed it only what it should feel. Nervous fear and confusion.

      This was not the first time she had done this, or even the hundred and first. She sat through more questions about the water levels at Mora’s home, and finally, she was discharged when the empath shook her head.

      She had a clean bill of being normal, which would mean that Mora could go home, but the blood sample would degrade in a matter of hours. Mora would be registered as normal until

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