Chapter 1
Foreword
Wheels set in motion out of gregarious spirit
Some wishes are answered on their own terms
One must always pay for the tune they dance to
Chapter 1 - great minds better watch their behinds
Elucidate is the watchword. The movement to show ourselves to a world that has no idea we exist. My parents are bankrolling and streamlining the process, eager to get to the light. Fitting since they are both light mages, as is my older brother. I alone ended up a FreaQ. Frequency mages are seen as pretty useless though my second school ended up being Ether. Ether mages can portal so I am somehow redeemed. Too bad I suck at that stuff.
Anyway Elucidate, the movement for my kind to “come out” to human society. It is planned to happen in three steps. My parents and their closest colleagues spent most of my toddler years in my father's backyard man cave planning and plotting ideas for how to pull it off. Years of beer filled refinement lead to what I am seeing before me in actual Cogitari Communications.
Elucidate, the unveiling of the Cogitari.
Bring down the wards.
Start project “now you see me.”
Reach out to the world as a community and open up the learning facilities for all.
I was a bit let down by the simplicity of the whole idea. I mean telling the world that there are people who can listen to your thoughts, set things on fire with their minds, tear time and space, and essentially keep it a secret for centuries, maybe warrants a bit of pomp.
The collective, cogitari’s advisory committee if you will, seemed to think low key was the key. I give it an F.
Not surprisingly, there were many who didn’t want to come out. The CC (cogi collective) addressed this by simply saying “then don’t” we won’t out you, just mind yourself. The collective protections and wards can be duplicated on an individual scale, you just have to take the time and use your gifts with forethought in a world that knows more than it did.
I have no doubt that response ruffled some feathers.
Mandela effect, matrix, governmental disillusionment, pandemic. These words were bandied around in defense of leaving the wards in place and letting people come out as individuals instead. The consensus swayed completely left to full disclosure despite the naysayers.
"We will emerge. The shadows are not a necessity in the world we know now." The resounding response from the collective.
