Endue: Women, Twins, Cyborgs - L. Ann Marie Page 0,3
line. It looked like someone tried to slice it at first. I think Jeremy helped while he was here.
Justice looks at me. “Hannah, Jeremy and Mucimi can throw healing energy while they’re close. If they’re touching, you may feel it. If they’re close, they can shield you in it and heal slowly. To answer you, Brother.” He turns to Banks. “It started as Indian. It’s not all Indian now. We have some members on the east coast that aren’t Indian and hold an enormous amount of ability. Ricky is one hundred percent Portuguese and has more ability than Indians on the reservations there. He has no healing ability. Christian doesn’t either.”
“Ben heals,” Cort says like Justice wouldn’t know.
I smile at him. “He does. He doesn’t suspend like Ricky and has a deeper clarity to him.” I remember him with Pres when I woke up in the medic room. He was holding Pres’s arm like Dakota does, he did it when Jeremy was here too.
Justice smiles at Hannah. “Prez has more ability than he shows. He trained Teller, Phoenix, Aquyá and me. We all trained with Knight, Ricky, Dakota and Christian too. It was important that we get perspective from all of our elders. Not showing ability keeps Brothers safe. He’s always thought it and only shows what he needs to.”
Brinks’ mamma and the Brother come back and I watch her sit on Brinks lap. The Brother sits by Banks at the very last seat in our half circle. He throws Brinks chin making me smile.
“Huh. Perspective so nothing was missed. How is Mase in your crew?” Cort is full of questions skipping Ben’s abilities. I bet it’s because the mamma is back with the Brother.
Hannah laughs then shrugs. “It’s a good question.”
“He bounced between Mass and Princes for Christian so Prez gave him a house. When they split us, Mase came to me to help with Mucimi. At the time, it was fuckin’ weird because he’s older, but he taught Mucimi more than Teller or I did. He got through to him where everyone failed with Jeremy. Mucimi can change his focus alone and every bit of that is on Mase. The Brother dogged him for almost four years making sure it got through.”
Falcon nods. “He did good and he fits well with your crew.”
I nod. He does. They’re all Brothers that show a pride in Badass and the Brotherhood we learned. I’m proud to call them mine.
Justice stands when Falcon does. “We’re out, Brothers. Dakota is on his way. Trask, thanks for keeping him and Chance. Hannah and Dakota can handle them.”
I stand hugging Pres and Hannah. “I’ll call if we implode, otherwise, have fun.”
They laugh. Brinks puts the mamma on his chair and we hug our other Brothers one right after the other. Before he turns back to the mamma he takes my forearm in a Brother’s hold. “You good, Brother?”
I nod. “Better than yesterday.” I smile feeling how true the words are. I always say the same thing to him.
He smiles. “I love hearing it. I’m out. Call me.”
“Always. Love ya, Brother.”
“Yeah.” He takes the mamma with him and I hear her asking about me. I’m not up for anyone but Debra so I sit seeing him look back then guide her away. My eyes are cool at night too. I didn’t have to move my head.
Cort watches me and nods. “You’re doing great, Brother. It’s good to see.”
“It feels good.” I don’t need to tell him. We grew up with him and Raid guiding our way and teaching us about life.
“The racetrack is almost done.”
I nod. Banks moves closer. “The water park is open next week. We’re already booking for the arena that’s a month out. You said we missed the flights. What do you mean?”
That’s why they’re here. “When we left the Masons, Pres asked Mucimi for ideas. He said big, so we went big with some help from Brody. Mucimi showed up and said the Masons would take care of the towns and support. We’d do Security and Badass flight for transport. I was thinking about the Security and how many new towns we’d be covering. Pres was thinking of traffic patterns and feasibility. Mucimi said flight for transport and we didn’t pick it up. I keep going back to it.”
Cort nods. “You’re thinking flight to transport as another business?”
He knows I am so I nod. “Yeah. Since he said Badass flights, I think this is only Brothers for a reason. It was lumped