The Aledan: A Psionic Love Story
In the ancient ruins of Farringay, a city of Earth's distant future, a frightened five year old girl reaches out with her mind to Hankura, a young telepathic Aledan boy on his way to Velran aboard a star passenger freighter. When he feels her fear and despair, he wants to help her. He recognizes that she is a latent telepathic healer and feels a strong connection with her---so strong, he promises to come back.
Twenty years after that meeting, Hankura still feels the connection with Michelle Marlow of Earth. Her realities become his nightmares and his dreams are shared fantasies. After Michelle is nearly killed in a street fight in Farringay, Hankura is overwhelmingly compelled to go there and rescue her.
In this hypothetical future, the mother world of humanity is in a state of ruin 800 years after the Procyon Wars with an alien race decimated the human race. What is left is held by violently diverse political groups run by crime lords. Except for the Starport at Farringay Earth is a very dangerous place. Hankura makes ground fall and finds Michelle easily, but he needs new powers crystals before they can leave for Aledus.
Their bond was sealed twenty years before when their minds touched telepathically. But Chelle, as Hankura calls her is still a dawning latent and has a lot to learn about using her abilities. She doesn't really understand why he has misgivings about returning to Aledus. Chelle only knows he feels he has to return because of how of the anger and resentment he felt at being send away.
Aledus is a world where telepathic psions are a scorned minority that faces discriminatory laws and repression. All psions must wear distinctive patches on their clothing that designate them as such. Psionic children are taken from their parents at age ten and placed in the Aledan Psi Institute for indoctrination and brainwashing against using their gifts. It amounts to government sanctioned torture and so is the psi testing that Hankura and Chelle must endure at the Aledan Psi Institute before they can work and travel freely as any psion on Aledus.
Life on Aledus is further complicated by Hankura's mother, a powerful psion whose psyche was more seriously damaged by her time at the Aledan Psi Institute than anyone imagines. She is disappointed that her favorite son has come home with a lifemate, yet expresses reverence that they are psi-bonded.
As Hankura begins his position as a physician as Salla Medical Center, Chelle embarks on Med-tech studies at the university to help her understand and develop her telekinetic healing abilities. Life on Aledus for the psi-mates is more difficult than they ever dreamed. It could very well cost them their lives and nearly does.
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